Revert Backoff [v3]: Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable

Here, an ICMP host/network unreachable message, whose payload fits to
TCP's SND.UNA, is taken as an indication that the RTO retransmission has
not been lost due to congestion, but because of a route failure
somewhere along the path.
With true congestion, a router won't trigger such a message and the
patched TCP will operate as standard TCP.

This patch reverts one RTO backoff, if an ICMP host/network unreachable
message, whose payload fits to TCP's SND.UNA, arrives.
Based on the new RTO, the retransmission timer is reset to reflect the
remaining time, or - if the revert clocked out the timer - a retransmission
is sent out immediately.
Backoffs are only reverted, if TCP is in RTO loss recovery, i.e. if
there have been retransmissions and reversible backoffs, already.

Changes from v2:
1) Renaming of skb in tcp_v4_err() moved to another patch.
2) Reintroduced tcp_bound_rto() and __tcp_set_rto().
3) Fixed code comments.

Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index cbb2a4889fc9..54f212ce8aaf 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ extern void __tcp_push_pending_frames(struct sock *sk, unsigned int cur_mss,
                                       int nonagle);
 extern int tcp_may_send_now(struct sock *sk);
 extern int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *, struct sk_buff *);
+extern void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *);
 extern void tcp_simple_retransmit(struct sock *);
 extern int tcp_trim_head(struct sock *, struct sk_buff *, u32);
@@ -521,6 +522,17 @@ extern int tcp_mtu_to_mss(struct sock *sk, int pmtu);
 extern int tcp_mss_to_mtu(struct sock *sk, int mss);
 extern void tcp_mtup_init(struct sock *sk);
 
+static inline void tcp_bound_rto(const struct sock *sk)
+{
+        if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto > TCP_RTO_MAX)
+                inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = TCP_RTO_MAX;
+}
+
+static inline u32 __tcp_set_rto(const struct tcp_sock *tp)
+{
+        return (tp->srtt >> 3) + tp->rttvar;
+}
+
 static inline void __tcp_fast_path_on(struct tcp_sock *tp, u32 snd_wnd)
 {
         tp->pred_flags = htonl((tp->tcp_header_len << 26) |