Re: [PATCH RFC] tcp: diag: Also support for FIN_WAIT1 sockets for tcp_abort()

[Xueming Feng]

> Aborting tcp connections via ss -K doesn't work in TCP_FIN_WAIT1 state,
> this happens because the SOCK_DEAD flag is set. Fix by ignoring that > flag
> for this special case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> I tested that this fixes the problem but not certain about correctness.
> 
> Support for TCP_TIME_WAIT was added recently but it doesn't fix
> TCP_FIN_WAIT1.
> 
> See: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220627121038.> 226500-1-edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index d9dd998fdb76..215e7d3fed13 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -4661,11 +4661,11 @@ int tcp_abort(struct sock *sk, int err)
>  
>  	/* Don't race with BH socket closes such as inet_csk_listen_stop. */
>  	local_bh_disable();
>  	bh_lock_sock(sk);
>  
> -	if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) {
> +	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_FIN_WAIT1 || !sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) {
>  		sk->sk_err = err;
>  		/* This barrier is coupled with smp_rmb() in tcp_poll() */
>  		smp_wmb();
>  		sk_error_report(sk);
>  		if (tcp_need_reset(sk->sk_state))
> -- 

I recently encountered a problem that is related to this patch. Some of our 
machines have orphaned TCP connections in FIN_WAIT1 state that stuck in 
zero window probing state, because the probes are being acked.

So I decide to kill it with `ss -K` that calls `tcp_abort`, it failed to kill
the socket while reporting success. However, the socket stopped probing and 
stays in FIN_WAIT1 state *forever*, with ss reporting no timer associated with 
the socket.

After some amateurish debugging, I found that because the FIN_WAIT1 socket have
SOCK_DEAD flag set. Thus, `tcp_abort` will not call `tcp_done` but clear both
`sk_write_queue` and `tcp_rtx_queue` in `tcp_write_queue_purge(* sock)`, 
this has caused some problem when the socket is in 'persist' or 'retransmit'.

`tcp_probe_timer()` will check if `sk_write_queue` is not empty and then reset
the timer. Same goes for `tcp_retransmit_timer()`, which will check if 
`tcp_rtx_queue` is not empty and then reset the timer. Clearing those queues
without actually closing the socket caused the timer not being reset and the
socket stuck in FIN_WAIT1 state forever.

I can confirm that this patch will indeed close the socket, but I am also not 
sure about the logical correctness of this patch being a newbie.