tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery

[ Upstream commit bef1909e ]

Fix to a problem observed when losing a FIN segment that does not
contain data.  In such situations, TLP is unable to recover from
*any* tail loss and instead adds at least PTO ms to the
retransmission process, i.e., RTO = RTO + PTO.
Signed-off-by: Per Hurtig <per.hurtig@kau.se>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

@@ -2036,8 +2036,6 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk)
 	if (WARN_ON(!skb || !tcp_skb_pcount(skb)))
 		goto rearm_timer;
 
-	/* Probe with zero data doesn't trigger fast recovery. */
-	if (skb->len > 0)
 	err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb);
 
 	/* Record snd_nxt for loss detection. */