TCP: avoid to send keepalive probes if receiving data

RFC 1122 says the following:
...
  Keep-alive packets MUST only be sent when no data or
  acknowledgement packets have been received for the
  connection within an interval.
...

The acknowledgement packet is reseting the keepalive
timer but the data packet isn't. This patch fixes it by
checking the timestamp of the last received data packet
too when the keepalive timer expires.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 3f87fd87bc9c..fb5c66b2ab81 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1033,6 +1033,14 @@ static inline int keepalive_probes(const struct tcp_sock *tp)
         return tp->keepalive_probes ? : sysctl_tcp_keepalive_probes;
 }
 
+static inline u32 keepalive_time_elapsed(const struct tcp_sock *tp)
+{
+        const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = &tp->inet_conn;
+
+        return min_t(u32, tcp_time_stamp - icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime,
+                          tcp_time_stamp - tp->rcv_tstamp);
+}
+
 static inline int tcp_fin_time(const struct sock *sk)
 {
         int fin_timeout = tcp_sk(sk)->linger2 ? : sysctl_tcp_fin_timeout;