Revert Backoff [v3]: Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable

Here, an ICMP host/network unreachable message, whose payload fits to
TCP's SND.UNA, is taken as an indication that the RTO retransmission has
not been lost due to congestion, but because of a route failure
somewhere along the path.
With true congestion, a router won't trigger such a message and the
patched TCP will operate as standard TCP.

This patch reverts one RTO backoff, if an ICMP host/network unreachable
message, whose payload fits to TCP's SND.UNA, arrives.
Based on the new RTO, the retransmission timer is reset to reflect the
remaining time, or - if the revert clocked out the timer - a retransmission
is sent out immediately.
Backoffs are only reverted, if TCP is in RTO loss recovery, i.e. if
there have been retransmissions and reversible backoffs, already.

Changes from v2:
1) Renaming of skb in tcp_v4_err() moved to another patch.
2) Reintroduced tcp_bound_rto() and __tcp_set_rto().
3) Fixed code comments.

Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

include/net/tcp.h

@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ extern void __tcp_push_pending_frames(struct sock *sk, unsigned int cur_mss,
 				      int nonagle);
 extern int tcp_may_send_now(struct sock *sk);
 extern int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *, struct sk_buff *);
+extern void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *);
 extern void tcp_simple_retransmit(struct sock *);
 extern int tcp_trim_head(struct sock *, struct sk_buff *, u32);
@@ -521,6 +522,17 @@ extern int tcp_mtu_to_mss(struct sock *sk, int pmtu);
 extern int tcp_mss_to_mtu(struct sock *sk, int mss);
 extern void tcp_mtup_init(struct sock *sk);
 
+static inline void tcp_bound_rto(const struct sock *sk)
+{
+	if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto > TCP_RTO_MAX)
+		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = TCP_RTO_MAX;
+}
+
+static inline u32 __tcp_set_rto(const struct tcp_sock *tp)
+{
+	return (tp->srtt >> 3) + tp->rttvar;
+}
+
 static inline void __tcp_fast_path_on(struct tcp_sock *tp, u32 snd_wnd)
 {
 	tp->pred_flags = htonl((tp->tcp_header_len << 26) |

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ static inline void tcp_set_rto(struct sock *sk)
 	 *    is invisible. Actually, Linux-2.4 also generates erratic
 	 *    ACKs in some circumstances.
 	 */
-	inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = (tp->srtt >> 3) + tp->rttvar;
+	inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = __tcp_set_rto(tp);
 
 	/* 2. Fixups made earlier cannot be right.
 	 *    If we do not estimate RTO correctly without them,
@@ -696,8 +696,7 @@ static inline void tcp_set_rto(struct sock *sk)
 	/* NOTE: clamping at TCP_RTO_MIN is not required, current algo
 	 * guarantees that rto is higher.
 	 */
-	if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto > TCP_RTO_MAX)
-		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = TCP_RTO_MAX;
+	tcp_bound_rto(sk);
 }
 
 /* Save metrics learned by this TCP session.

net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c

@@ -332,12 +332,15 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 {
 	struct iphdr *iph = (struct iphdr *)icmp_skb->data;
 	struct tcphdr *th = (struct tcphdr *)(icmp_skb->data + (iph->ihl << 2));
+	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk;
 	struct tcp_sock *tp;
 	struct inet_sock *inet;
 	const int type = icmp_hdr(icmp_skb)->type;
 	const int code = icmp_hdr(icmp_skb)->code;
 	struct sock *sk;
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	__u32 seq;
+	__u32 remaining;
 	int err;
 	struct net *net = dev_net(icmp_skb->dev);
 
@@ -367,6 +370,7 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)
 		goto out;
 
+	icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 	tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	seq = ntohl(th->seq);
 	if (sk->sk_state != TCP_LISTEN &&
@@ -393,6 +397,39 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 		}
 
 		err = icmp_err_convert[code].errno;
+		/* check if icmp_skb allows revert of backoff
+		 * (see draft-zimmermann-tcp-lcd) */
+		if (code != ICMP_NET_UNREACH && code != ICMP_HOST_UNREACH)
+			break;
+		if (seq != tp->snd_una  || !icsk->icsk_retransmits ||
+		    !icsk->icsk_backoff)
+			break;
+
+		icsk->icsk_backoff--;
+		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = __tcp_set_rto(tp) <<
+					 icsk->icsk_backoff;
+		tcp_bound_rto(sk);
+
+		skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk);
+		BUG_ON(!skb);
+
+		remaining = icsk->icsk_rto - min(icsk->icsk_rto,
+				tcp_time_stamp - TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when);
+
+		if (remaining) {
+			inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,
+						  remaining, TCP_RTO_MAX);
+		} else if (sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
+			/* RTO revert clocked out retransmission,
+			 * but socket is locked. Will defer. */
+			inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,
+						  HZ/20, TCP_RTO_MAX);
+		} else {
+			/* RTO revert clocked out retransmission.
+			 * Will retransmit now */
+			tcp_retransmit_timer(sk);
+		}
+
 		break;
 	case ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED:
 		err = EHOSTUNREACH;

net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static void tcp_probe_timer(struct sock *sk)
  *	The TCP retransmit timer.
  */
 
-static void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
+void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);