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Gerd Rausch db69e9b838 net/rds: rds_tcp_accept_one ought to not discard messages
RDS/TCP differs from RDS/RDMA in that message acknowledgment
is done based on TCP sequence numbers:
As soon as the last byte of a message has been acknowledged
by the TCP stack of a peer, "rds_tcp_write_space()" goes on
to discard prior messages from the send queue.

Which is fine, for as long as the receiver never throws any messages away.

Unfortunately, that is *not* the case since the introduction of MPRDS:
commit 1a0e100fb2 "RDS: TCP: Enable multipath RDS for TCP"

A new function "rds_tcp_accept_one_path" was introduced,
which is entitled to return "NULL", if no connection path is currently
available.

Unfortunately, this happens after the "->accept()" call, and the new socket
often already contains messages, since the peer already transitioned
to "RDS_CONN_UP" on behalf of "TCP_ESTABLISHED".

That's also the case after this [1]:
commit 1a0e100fb2 "RDS: TCP: Force every connection to be initiated by
numerically smaller IP address"

which tried to address the situation of pending data by only transitioning
connections from a smaller IP address to "RDS_CONN_UP".

But even in those cases, and in particular if the "RDS_EXTHDR_NPATHS"
handshake has not occurred yet, and therefore we're working with
"c_npaths <= 1", "c_conn[0]" may be in a state distinct from
"RDS_CONN_DOWN", and therefore all messages on the just accepted socket
will be tossed away.

This fix changes "rds_tcp_accept_one":

* If connected from a peer with a larger IP address, the new socket
  will continue to get closed right away.
  With commit [1] above, there should not be any messages
  in the socket receive buffer, since the peer never transitioned
  to "RDS_CONN_UP".
  Therefore it should be okay to not make any efforts to dispatch
  the socket receive buffer.

* If connected from a peer with a smaller IP address,
  we call "rds_tcp_accept_one_path" to find a free slot/"path".
  If found, business goes on as usual.
  If none was found, we save/stash the newly accepted socket
  into "rds_tcp_accepted_sock", in order to not lose any
  messages that may have arrived already.
  We then return from "rds_tcp_accept_one" with "-ENOBUFS".
  Later on, when a slot/"path" does become available again
  (e.g. state transitioned to "RDS_CONN_DOWN",
   or HS extension header was received with "c_npaths > 1")
  we call "rds_tcp_conn_slots_available" that simply re-issues
  a "rds_tcp_accept_one_path" worker-callback and picks
  up the new socket from "rds_tcp_accepted_sock", and thereby
  continuing where it left with "-ENOBUFS" last time.
  Since a new slot has become available, those messages
  won't be lost, since processing proceeds as if that slot
  had been available the first time around.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Rausch <gerd.rausch@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122055213.83608-3-achender@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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