Revert Backoff [v3]: Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable

Here, an ICMP host/network unreachable message, whose payload fits to
TCP's SND.UNA, is taken as an indication that the RTO retransmission has
not been lost due to congestion, but because of a route failure
somewhere along the path.
With true congestion, a router won't trigger such a message and the
patched TCP will operate as standard TCP.

This patch reverts one RTO backoff, if an ICMP host/network unreachable
message, whose payload fits to TCP's SND.UNA, arrives.
Based on the new RTO, the retransmission timer is reset to reflect the
remaining time, or - if the revert clocked out the timer - a retransmission
is sent out immediately.
Backoffs are only reverted, if TCP is in RTO loss recovery, i.e. if
there have been retransmissions and reversible backoffs, already.

Changes from v2:
1) Renaming of skb in tcp_v4_err() moved to another patch.
2) Reintroduced tcp_bound_rto() and __tcp_set_rto().
3) Fixed code comments.

Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 6ca1bc8..6755e29 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -332,12 +332,15 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 {
 	struct iphdr *iph = (struct iphdr *)icmp_skb->data;
 	struct tcphdr *th = (struct tcphdr *)(icmp_skb->data + (iph->ihl << 2));
+	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk;
 	struct tcp_sock *tp;
 	struct inet_sock *inet;
 	const int type = icmp_hdr(icmp_skb)->type;
 	const int code = icmp_hdr(icmp_skb)->code;
 	struct sock *sk;
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	__u32 seq;
+	__u32 remaining;
 	int err;
 	struct net *net = dev_net(icmp_skb->dev);
 
@@ -367,6 +370,7 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)
 		goto out;
 
+	icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 	tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	seq = ntohl(th->seq);
 	if (sk->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN &&
@@ -393,6 +397,39 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 		}
 
 		err = icmp_err_convert[code].errno;
+		/* check if icmp_skb allows revert of backoff
+		 * (see draft-zimmermann-tcp-lcd) */
+		if (code != ICMP_NET_UNREACH && code != ICMP_HOST_UNREACH)
+			break;
+		if (seq != tp->snd_una  || !icsk->icsk_retransmits ||
+		    !icsk->icsk_backoff)
+			break;
+
+		icsk->icsk_backoff--;
+		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = __tcp_set_rto(tp) <<
+					 icsk->icsk_backoff;
+		tcp_bound_rto(sk);
+
+		skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk);
+		BUG_ON(!skb);
+
+		remaining = icsk->icsk_rto - min(icsk->icsk_rto,
+				tcp_time_stamp - TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when);
+
+		if (remaining) {
+			inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,
+						  remaining, TCP_RTO_MAX);
+		} else if (sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
+			/* RTO revert clocked out retransmission,
+			 * but socket is locked. Will defer. */
+			inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,
+						  HZ/20, TCP_RTO_MAX);
+		} else {
+			/* RTO revert clocked out retransmission.
+			 * Will retransmit now */
+			tcp_retransmit_timer(sk);
+		}
+
 		break;
 	case ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED:
 		err = EHOSTUNREACH;