dccp: Allow to distinguish original and retransmitted packets

This patch allows the sender to distinguish original and retransmitted packets,
which is in particular needed for the retransmission of DCCP-Requests:
 * the first Request uses ISS (generated in net/dccp/ip*.c), and sets GSS = ISS;
 * all retransmitted Requests use GSS' = GSS + 1, so that the n-th retransmitted
   Request has sequence number ISS + n (mod 48).

To add generic support, the patch reorganises existing code so that:
 * icsk_retransmits == 0     for the original packet and
 * icsk_retransmits = n > 0  for the n-th retransmitted packet
at the time dccp_transmit_skb() is called, via dccp_retransmit_skb().
 
Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing this problem out.

Further changes:
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 * removed the `skb' argument from dccp_retransmit_skb(), since sk_send_head
   is used for all retransmissions (the exception is client-Acks in PARTOPEN
   state, but these do not use sk_send_head);
 * since sk_send_head always contains the original skb (via dccp_entail()),
   skb_cloned() never evaluated to true and thus pskb_copy() was never used.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/dccp/output.c b/net/dccp/output.c
index fe20068..d19d481 100644
--- a/net/dccp/output.c
+++ b/net/dccp/output.c
@@ -284,14 +284,26 @@ void dccp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, int block)
 	}
 }
 
-int dccp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+/**
+ * dccp_retransmit_skb  -  Retransmit Request, Close, or CloseReq packets
+ * There are only four retransmittable packet types in DCCP:
+ * - Request  in client-REQUEST  state (sec. 8.1.1),
+ * - CloseReq in server-CLOSEREQ state (sec. 8.3),
+ * - Close    in   node-CLOSING  state (sec. 8.3),
+ * - Acks in client-PARTOPEN state (sec. 8.1.5, handled by dccp_delack_timer()).
+ * This function expects sk->sk_send_head to contain the original skb.
+ */
+int dccp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk)
 {
+	WARN_ON(sk->sk_send_head == NULL);
+
 	if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_af_ops->rebuild_header(sk) != 0)
 		return -EHOSTUNREACH; /* Routing failure or similar. */
 
-	return dccp_transmit_skb(sk, (skb_cloned(skb) ?
-				      pskb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC):
-				      skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)));
+	/* this count is used to distinguish original and retransmitted skb */
+	inet_csk(sk)->icsk_retransmits++;
+
+	return dccp_transmit_skb(sk, skb_clone(sk->sk_send_head, GFP_ATOMIC));
 }
 
 struct sk_buff *dccp_make_response(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,