tcp: fix for zero packets_in_flight was too broad

There are transients during normal FRTO procedure during which
the packets_in_flight can go to zero between write_queue state
updates and firing the resulting segments out. As FRTO processing
occurs during that window the check must be more precise to
not match "spuriously" :-). More specificly, e.g., when
packets_in_flight is zero but FLAG_DATA_ACKED is true the problematic
branch that set cwnd into zero would not be taken and new segments
might be sent out later.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

@@ -3484,8 +3484,7 @@ static bool tcp_process_frto(struct sock *sk, int flag)
 	    ((tp->frto_counter >= 2) && (flag & FLAG_RETRANS_DATA_ACKED)))
 		tp->undo_marker = 0;
 
-	if (!before(tp->snd_una, tp->frto_highmark) ||
-	    !tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)) {
+	if (!before(tp->snd_una, tp->frto_highmark)) {
 		tcp_enter_frto_loss(sk, (tp->frto_counter == 1 ? 2 : 3), flag);
 		return true;
 	}
@@ -3505,6 +3504,11 @@ static bool tcp_process_frto(struct sock *sk, int flag)
 		}
 	} else {
 		if (!(flag & FLAG_DATA_ACKED) && (tp->frto_counter == 1)) {
+			if (!tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)) {
+				tcp_enter_frto_loss(sk, 2, flag);
+				return true;
+			}
+
 			/* Prevent sending of new data. */
 			tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd,
 					   tcp_packets_in_flight(tp));