tcp: fix false undo corner cases

The undo code assumes that, upon entering loss recovery, TCP
1) always retransmit something
2) the retransmission never fails locally (e.g., qdisc drop)

so undo_marker is set in tcp_enter_recovery() and undo_retrans is
incremented only when tcp_retransmit_skb() is successful.

When the assumption is broken because TCP's cwnd is too small to
retransmit or the retransmit fails locally. The next (DUP)ACK
would incorrectly revert the cwnd and the congestion state in
tcp_try_undo_dsack() or tcp_may_undo(). Subsequent (DUP)ACKs
may enter the recovery state. The sender repeatedly enter and
(incorrectly) exit recovery states if the retransmits continue to
fail locally while receiving (DUP)ACKs.

The fix is to initialize undo_retrans to -1 and start counting on
the first retransmission. Always increment undo_retrans even if the
retransmissions fail locally because they couldn't cause DSACKs to
undo the cwnd reduction.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index d92bce0ea24e..179b51e6bda3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2525,8 +2525,6 @@ int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
                 if (!tp->retrans_stamp)
                         tp->retrans_stamp = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when;
 
-                tp->undo_retrans += tcp_skb_pcount(skb);
-
                 /* snd_nxt is stored to detect loss of retransmitted segment,
                  * see tcp_input.c tcp_sacktag_write_queue().
                  */
@@ -2534,6 +2532,10 @@ int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
         } else if (err != -EBUSY) {
                 NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPRETRANSFAIL);
         }
+
+        if (tp->undo_retrans < 0)
+                tp->undo_retrans = 0;
+        tp->undo_retrans += tcp_skb_pcount(skb);
         return err;
 }