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tcp: adjust rto_base in retransmits_timed_out()
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commit 3256a2d6ab1f71f9a1bd2d7f6f18eb8108c48d17 upstream.

The cited commit exposed an old retransmits_timed_out() bug
which assumed it could call tcp_model_timeout() with
TCP_RTO_MIN as rto_base for all states.

But flows in SYN_SENT or SYN_RECV state uses a different
RTO base (1 sec instead of 200 ms, unless BPF choses
another value)

This caused a reduction of SYN retransmits from 6 to 4 with
the default /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries value.

Fixes: a41e8a88b06e ("tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Majkowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Qiumiao Zhang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Eric Dumazet authored and gregkh committed Oct 6, 2021
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
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Expand Up @@ -197,8 +197,13 @@ static bool retransmits_timed_out(struct sock *sk,
return false;

start_ts = tcp_sk(sk)->retrans_stamp;
if (likely(timeout == 0))
timeout = tcp_model_timeout(sk, boundary, TCP_RTO_MIN);
if (likely(timeout == 0)) {
unsigned int rto_base = TCP_RTO_MIN;

if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV))
rto_base = tcp_timeout_init(sk);
timeout = tcp_model_timeout(sk, boundary, rto_base);
}

return (s32)(tcp_time_stamp(tcp_sk(sk)) - start_ts - timeout) >= 0;
}
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