tcp: avoid reorders for TFO passive connections

We found that a TCP Fast Open passive connection was vulnerable
to reorders, as the exchange might look like

[1] C -> S S <FO ...> <request>
[2] S -> C S. ack request <options>
[3] S -> C . <answer>

packets [2] and [3] can be generated at almost the same time.

If C receives the 3rd packet before the 2nd, it will drop it as
the socket is in SYN_SENT state and expects a SYNACK.

S will have to retransmit the answer.

Current OOO avoidance in linux is defeated because SYNACK
packets are attached to the LISTEN socket, while DATA packets
are attached to the children. They might be sent by different cpus,
and different TX queues might be selected.

It turns out that for TFO, we created a child, which is a
full blown socket in TCP_SYN_RECV state, and we simply can attach
the SYNACK packet to this socket.

This means that at the time tcp_sendmsg() pushes DATA packet,
skb->ooo_okay will be set iff the SYNACK packet had been sent
and TX completed.

This removes the reorder source at the host level.

We also removed the export of tcp_try_fastopen(), as it is no
longer called from IPv6.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 6630ab180f5c..cdbf63d3c5cf 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1422,10 +1422,10 @@ void tcp_free_fastopen_req(struct tcp_sock *tp);
 
 extern struct tcp_fastopen_context __rcu *tcp_fastopen_ctx;
 int tcp_fastopen_reset_cipher(void *key, unsigned int len);
-bool tcp_try_fastopen(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
-                      struct request_sock *req,
-                      struct tcp_fastopen_cookie *foc,
-                      struct dst_entry *dst);
+struct sock *tcp_try_fastopen(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
+                              struct request_sock *req,
+                              struct tcp_fastopen_cookie *foc,
+                              struct dst_entry *dst);
 void tcp_fastopen_init_key_once(bool publish);
 #define TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY_LENGTH 16