ipv6: RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG causes inefficient TCP segment sizing

Quoting Tore Anderson from :
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42572

When RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is set on a route, the effective TCP segment
size does not take into account the size of the IPv6 Fragmentation
header that needs to be included in outbound packets, causing every
transmitted TCP segment to be fragmented across two IPv6 packets, the
latter of which will only contain 8 bytes of actual payload.

RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is typically set on a route in response to
receving a ICMPv6 Packet Too Big message indicating a Path MTU of less
than 1280 bytes. 1280 bytes is the minimum IPv6 MTU, however ICMPv6
PTBs with MTU < 1280 are still valid, in particular when an IPv6
packet is sent to an IPv4 destination through a stateless translator.
Any ICMPv4 Need To Fragment packets originated from the IPv4 part of
the path will be translated to ICMPv6 PTB which may then indicate an
MTU of less than 1280.

The Linux kernel refuses to reduce the effective MTU to anything below
1280 bytes, instead it sets it to exactly 1280 bytes, and
RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is also set. However, the TCP segment size appears
to be set to 1240 bytes (1280 Path MTU - 40 bytes of IPv6 header),
instead of 1232 (additionally taking into account the 8 bytes required
by the IPv6 Fragmentation extension header).

This in turn results in rather inefficient transmission, as every
transmitted TCP segment now is split in two fragments containing
1232+8 bytes of payload.

After this patch, all the outgoing packets that includes a
Fragmentation header all are "atomic" or "non-fragmented" fragments,
i.e., they both have Offset=0 and More Fragments=0.

With help from David S. Miller

Reported-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Tested-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 7b7cf38..834e89f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ int tcp_trim_head(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len)
 }
 
 /* Calculate MSS. Not accounting for SACKs here.  */
-int tcp_mtu_to_mss(const struct sock *sk, int pmtu)
+int tcp_mtu_to_mss(struct sock *sk, int pmtu)
 {
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
@@ -1161,6 +1161,14 @@ int tcp_mtu_to_mss(const struct sock *sk, int pmtu)
 	 */
 	mss_now = pmtu - icsk->icsk_af_ops->net_header_len - sizeof(struct tcphdr);
 
+	/* IPv6 adds a frag_hdr in case RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is set */
+	if (icsk->icsk_af_ops->net_frag_header_len) {
+		const struct dst_entry *dst = __sk_dst_get(sk);
+
+		if (dst && dst_allfrag(dst))
+			mss_now -= icsk->icsk_af_ops->net_frag_header_len;
+	}
+
 	/* Clamp it (mss_clamp does not include tcp options) */
 	if (mss_now > tp->rx_opt.mss_clamp)
 		mss_now = tp->rx_opt.mss_clamp;
@@ -1179,7 +1187,7 @@ int tcp_mtu_to_mss(const struct sock *sk, int pmtu)
 }
 
 /* Inverse of above */
-int tcp_mss_to_mtu(const struct sock *sk, int mss)
+int tcp_mss_to_mtu(struct sock *sk, int mss)
 {
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
@@ -1190,6 +1198,13 @@ int tcp_mss_to_mtu(const struct sock *sk, int mss)
 	      icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len +
 	      icsk->icsk_af_ops->net_header_len;
 
+	/* IPv6 adds a frag_hdr in case RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is set */
+	if (icsk->icsk_af_ops->net_frag_header_len) {
+		const struct dst_entry *dst = __sk_dst_get(sk);
+
+		if (dst && dst_allfrag(dst))
+			mtu += icsk->icsk_af_ops->net_frag_header_len;
+	}
 	return mtu;
 }