[PATCH 2/2] tcp: fix forever orphan socket caused by tcp_abort

From: Youngmin Nam
Date: Fri Mar 14 2025 - 05:22:13 EST


From: Xueming Feng <kuro@xxxxxxxx>

commit bac76cf89816bff06c4ec2f3df97dc34e150a1c4 upstream.

We have some problem closing zero-window fin-wait-1 tcp sockets in our
environment. This patch come from the investigation.

Previously tcp_abort only sends out reset and calls tcp_done when the
socket is not SOCK_DEAD, aka orphan. For orphan socket, it will only
purging the write queue, but not close the socket and left it to the
timer.

While purging the write queue, tp->packets_out and sk->sk_write_queue
is cleared along the way. However tcp_retransmit_timer have early
return based on !tp->packets_out and tcp_probe_timer have early
return based on !sk->sk_write_queue.

This caused ICSK_TIME_RETRANS and ICSK_TIME_PROBE0 not being resched
and socket not being killed by the timers, converting a zero-windowed
orphan into a forever orphan.

This patch removes the SOCK_DEAD check in tcp_abort, making it send
reset to peer and close the socket accordingly. Preventing the
timer-less orphan from happening.

According to Lorenzo's email in the v1 thread, the check was there to
prevent force-closing the same socket twice. That situation is handled
by testing for TCP_CLOSE inside lock, and returning -ENOENT if it is
already closed.

The -ENOENT code comes from the associate patch Lorenzo made for
iproute2-ss; link attached below, which also conform to RFC 9293.

At the end of the patch, tcp_write_queue_purge(sk) is removed because it
was already called in tcp_done_with_error().

p.s. This is the same patch with v2. Resent due to mis-labeled "changes
requested" on patchwork.kernel.org.

Link: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/1450773094-7978-3-git-send-email-lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: c1e64e298b8c ("net: diag: Support destroying TCP sockets.")
Signed-off-by: Xueming Feng <kuro@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240826102327.1461482-1-kuro@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.10+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z9OZS%2Fhc+v5og6%2FU@perf/
[youngmin: Resolved minor conflict in net/ipv4/tcp.c]
Signed-off-by: Youngmin Nam <youngmin.nam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 9fe164aa185c..ff22060f9145 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -4620,6 +4620,13 @@ int tcp_abort(struct sock *sk, int err)
/* Don't race with userspace socket closes such as tcp_close. */
lock_sock(sk);

+ /* Avoid closing the same socket twice. */
+ if (sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE) {
+ if (!has_current_bpf_ctx())
+ release_sock(sk);
+ return -ENOENT;
+ }
+
if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN) {
tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_CLOSE);
inet_csk_listen_stop(sk);
@@ -4629,15 +4636,12 @@ int tcp_abort(struct sock *sk, int err)
local_bh_disable();
bh_lock_sock(sk);

- if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) {
- if (tcp_need_reset(sk->sk_state))
- tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC);
- tcp_done_with_error(sk, err);
- }
+ if (tcp_need_reset(sk->sk_state))
+ tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ tcp_done_with_error(sk, err);

bh_unlock_sock(sk);
local_bh_enable();
- tcp_write_queue_purge(sk);
if (!has_current_bpf_ctx())
release_sock(sk);
return 0;
--
2.39.2