dccp: Allow to distinguish original and retransmitted packets

This patch allows the sender to distinguish original and retransmitted packets,
which is in particular needed for the retransmission of DCCP-Requests:
 * the first Request uses ISS (generated in net/dccp/ip*.c), and sets GSS = ISS;
 * all retransmitted Requests use GSS' = GSS + 1, so that the n-th retransmitted
   Request has sequence number ISS + n (mod 48).

To add generic support, the patch reorganises existing code so that:
 * icsk_retransmits == 0     for the original packet and
 * icsk_retransmits = n > 0  for the n-th retransmitted packet
at the time dccp_transmit_skb() is called, via dccp_retransmit_skb().
 
Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing this problem out.

Further changes:
----------------
 * removed the `skb' argument from dccp_retransmit_skb(), since sk_send_head
   is used for all retransmissions (the exception is client-Acks in PARTOPEN
   state, but these do not use sk_send_head);
 * since sk_send_head always contains the original skb (via dccp_entail()),
   skb_cloned() never evaluated to true and thus pskb_copy() was never used.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/net/dccp/dccp.h b/net/dccp/dccp.h
index 743d85fcd651..1c2e3ec2eb57 100644
--- a/net/dccp/dccp.h
+++ b/net/dccp/dccp.h
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static inline void dccp_csum_outgoing(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 extern void dccp_v4_send_check(struct sock *sk, int len, struct sk_buff *skb);
 
-extern int  dccp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
+extern int  dccp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk);
 
 extern void dccp_send_ack(struct sock *sk);
 extern void dccp_reqsk_send_ack(struct sk_buff *sk, struct request_sock *rsk);
diff --git a/net/dccp/output.c b/net/dccp/output.c
index fe20068c5d8e..d19d48195013 100644
--- a/net/dccp/output.c
+++ b/net/dccp/output.c
@@ -284,14 +284,26 @@ void dccp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, int block)
         }
 }
 
-int dccp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+/**
+ * dccp_retransmit_skb  -  Retransmit Request, Close, or CloseReq packets
+ * There are only four retransmittable packet types in DCCP:
+ * - Request  in client-REQUEST  state (sec. 8.1.1),
+ * - CloseReq in server-CLOSEREQ state (sec. 8.3),
+ * - Close    in   node-CLOSING  state (sec. 8.3),
+ * - Acks in client-PARTOPEN state (sec. 8.1.5, handled by dccp_delack_timer()).
+ * This function expects sk->sk_send_head to contain the original skb.
+ */
+int dccp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk)
 {
+        WARN_ON(sk->sk_send_head == NULL);
+
         if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_af_ops->rebuild_header(sk) != 0)
                 return -EHOSTUNREACH; /* Routing failure or similar. */
 
-        return dccp_transmit_skb(sk, (skb_cloned(skb) ?
-                                      pskb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC):
-                                      skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)));
+        /* this count is used to distinguish original and retransmitted skb */
+        inet_csk(sk)->icsk_retransmits++;
+
+        return dccp_transmit_skb(sk, skb_clone(sk->sk_send_head, GFP_ATOMIC));
 }
 
 struct sk_buff *dccp_make_response(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
diff --git a/net/dccp/timer.c b/net/dccp/timer.c
index 6a5b961b6f5c..54b3c7e9e016 100644
--- a/net/dccp/timer.c
+++ b/net/dccp/timer.c
@@ -99,21 +99,11 @@ static void dccp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
         }
 
         /*
-         * sk->sk_send_head has to have one skb with
-         * DCCP_SKB_CB(skb)->dccpd_type set to one of the retransmittable DCCP
-         * packet types. The only packets eligible for retransmission are:
-         *      -- Requests in client-REQUEST  state (sec. 8.1.1)
-         *      -- Acks     in client-PARTOPEN state (sec. 8.1.5)
-         *      -- CloseReq in server-CLOSEREQ state (sec. 8.3)
-         *      -- Close    in   node-CLOSING  state (sec. 8.3)                */
-        WARN_ON(sk->sk_send_head == NULL);
-
-        /*
          * More than than 4MSL (8 minutes) has passed, a RESET(aborted) was
          * sent, no need to retransmit, this sock is dead.
          */
         if (dccp_write_timeout(sk))
-                goto out;
+                return;
 
         /*
          * We want to know the number of packets retransmitted, not the
@@ -122,30 +112,28 @@ static void dccp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
         if (icsk->icsk_retransmits == 0)
                 DCCP_INC_STATS_BH(DCCP_MIB_TIMEOUTS);
 
-        if (dccp_retransmit_skb(sk, sk->sk_send_head) < 0) {
+        if (dccp_retransmit_skb(sk) != 0) {
                 /*
                  * Retransmission failed because of local congestion,
                  * do not backoff.
                  */
-                if (icsk->icsk_retransmits == 0)
+                if (--icsk->icsk_retransmits == 0)
                         icsk->icsk_retransmits = 1;
                 inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,
                                           min(icsk->icsk_rto,
                                               TCP_RESOURCE_PROBE_INTERVAL),
                                           DCCP_RTO_MAX);
-                goto out;
+                return;
         }
 
 backoff:
         icsk->icsk_backoff++;
-        icsk->icsk_retransmits++;
 
         icsk->icsk_rto = min(icsk->icsk_rto << 1, DCCP_RTO_MAX);
         inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS, icsk->icsk_rto,
                                   DCCP_RTO_MAX);
         if (icsk->icsk_retransmits > sysctl_dccp_retries1)
                 __sk_dst_reset(sk);
-out:;
 }
 
 static void dccp_write_timer(unsigned long data)