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A recent cleanup changed the behaviour of tcp_set_window_clamp(). This
looks unintentional, and affects MPTCP selftests, e.g. some tests
re-establishing a connection after a disconnect are now unstable.
Before the cleanup, this operation was done:
new_rcv_ssthresh = min(tp->rcv_wnd, new_window_clamp);
tp->rcv_ssthresh = max(new_rcv_ssthresh, tp->rcv_ssthresh);
The cleanup used the 'clamp' macro which takes 3 arguments -- value,
lowest, and highest -- and returns a value between the lowest and the
highest allowable values. This then assumes ...
lowest (rcv_ssthresh) <= highest (rcv_wnd)
... which doesn't seem to be always the case here according to the MPTCP
selftests, even when running them without MPTCP, but only TCP.
For example, when we have ...
rcv_wnd < rcv_ssthresh < new_rcv_ssthresh
... before the cleanup, the rcv_ssthresh was not changed, while after
the cleanup, it is lowered down to rcv_wnd (highest).
During a simple test with TCP, here are the values I observed:
new_window_clamp (val) rcv_ssthresh (lo) rcv_wnd (hi)
117760 (out) 65495 < 65536
128512 (out) 109595 > 80256 => lo > hi
1184975 (out) 328987 < 329088
113664 (out) 65483 < 65536
117760 (out) 110968 < 110976
129024 (out) 116527 > 109696 => lo > hi
Here, we can see that it is not that rare to have rcv_ssthresh (lo)
higher than rcv_wnd (hi), so having a different behaviour when the
clamp() macro is used, even without MPTCP.
Note: new_window_clamp is always out of range (rcv_ssthresh < rcv_wnd)
here, which seems to be generally the case in my tests with small
connections.
I then suggests reverting this part, not to change the behaviour.
Fixes: 863a952eb7 ("tcp: tcp_set_window_clamp() cleanup")
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/551
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250305-net-next-fix-tcp-win-clamp-v1-1-12afb705d34e@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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