[PATCH 4.2 23/61] tcp: disable Fast Open on timeouts after handshake

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0e45f4da5981895e885dd72fe912a3f8e32bae73 ]

Some middle-boxes black-hole the data after the Fast Open handshake
(https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tcpm-13.pdf).
The exact reason is unknown. The work-around is to disable Fast Open
temporarily after multiple recurring timeouts with few or no data
delivered in the established state.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -176,6 +176,18 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock
 		syn_set = true;
 	} else {
 		if (retransmits_timed_out(sk, sysctl_tcp_retries1, 0, 0)) {
+			/* Some middle-boxes may black-hole Fast Open _after_
+			 * the handshake. Therefore we conservatively disable
+			 * Fast Open on this path on recurring timeouts with
+			 * few or zero bytes acked after Fast Open.
+			 */
+			if (tp->syn_data_acked &&
+			    tp->bytes_acked <= tp->rx_opt.mss_clamp) {
+				tcp_fastopen_cache_set(sk, 0, NULL, true, 0);
+				if (icsk->icsk_retransmits == sysctl_tcp_retries1)
+					NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk),
+							 LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENACTIVEFAIL);
+			}
 			/* Black hole detection */
 			tcp_mtu_probing(icsk, sk);
 


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