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After the following commit from 2024: commite37ab73736("tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits were sent") ...there was buggy behavior where TCP connections without SACK support could easily see erroneous undo events at the end of fast recovery or RTO recovery episodes. The erroneous undo events could cause those connections to suffer repeated loss recovery episodes and high retransmit rates. The problem was an interaction between the non-SACK behavior on these connections and the undo logic. The problem is that, for non-SACK connections at the end of a loss recovery episode, if snd_una == high_seq, then tcp_is_non_sack_preventing_reopen() holds steady in CA_Recovery or CA_Loss, but clears tp->retrans_stamp to 0. Then upon the next ACK the "tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits were sent" logic saw the tp->retrans_stamp at 0 and erroneously concluded that no data was retransmitted, and erroneously performed an undo of the cwnd reduction, restoring cwnd immediately to the value it had before loss recovery. This caused an immediate burst of traffic and build-up of queues and likely another immediate loss recovery episode. This commit fixes tcp_packet_delayed() to ignore zero retrans_stamp values for non-SACK connections when snd_una is at or above high_seq, because tcp_is_non_sack_preventing_reopen() clears retrans_stamp in this case, so it's not a valid signal that we can undo. Note that the commit named in the Fixes footer restored long-present behavior from roughly 2005-2019, so apparently this bug was present for a while during that era, and this was simply not caught. Fixes:e37ab73736("tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits were sent") Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <netdev@lists.ewheeler.net> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/64ea9333-e7f9-0df-b0f2-8d566143acab@ewheeler.net/ Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Co-developed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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