From: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 15:33:43 -0800
> This patch fixes the cause of an WARNING indicatng TCP has pending
> retransmission in Open state in tcp_fastretrans_alert().
>
> The root cause is a bad interaction between path mtu probing,
> if enabled, and the RACK loss detection. Upong receiving a SACK
> above the sequence of the MTU probing packet, RACK could mark the
> probe packet lost in tcp_fastretrans_alert(), prior to calling
> tcp_simple_retransmit().
>
> tcp_simple_retransmit() only enters Loss state if it newly marks
> the probe packet lost. If the probe packet is already identified as
> lost by RACK, the sender remains in Open state with some packets
> marked lost and retransmitted. Then the next SACK would trigger
> the warning. The likely scenario is that the probe packet was
> lost due to its size or network congestion. The actual impact of
> this warning is small by potentially entering fast recovery an
> ACK later.
>
> The simple fix is always entering recovery (Loss) state if some
> packet is marked lost during path MTU probing.
>
> Fixes: a0370b3f3f2c ("tcp: enable RACK loss detection to trigger recovery")
> Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.
