From: SeongJae Park sjpark@amazon.de
When closing a connection, the two acks that required to change closing socket's status to FIN_WAIT_2 and then TIME_WAIT could be processed in reverse order. This is possible in RSS disabled environments such as a connection inside a host.
For example, expected state transitions and required packets for the disconnection will be similar to below flow.
00 (Process A) (Process B) 01 ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED 02 close() 03 FIN_WAIT_1 04 ---FIN--> 05 CLOSE_WAIT 06 <--ACK--- 07 FIN_WAIT_2 08 <--FIN/ACK--- 09 TIME_WAIT 10 ---ACK--> 11 LAST_ACK 12 CLOSED CLOSED
In some cases such as LINGER option applied socket, the FIN and FIN/ACK will be substituted to RST and RST/ACK, but there is no difference in the main logic.
The acks in lines 6 and 8 are the acks. If the line 8 packet is processed before the line 6 packet, it will be just ignored as it is not a expected packet, and the later process of the line 6 packet will change the status of Process A to FIN_WAIT_2, but as it has already handled line 8 packet, it will not go to TIME_WAIT and thus will not send the line 10 packet to Process B. Thus, Process B will left in CLOSE_WAIT status, as below.
00 (Process A) (Process B) 01 ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED 02 close() 03 FIN_WAIT_1 04 ---FIN--> 05 CLOSE_WAIT 06 (<--ACK---) 07 (<--FIN/ACK---) 08 (fired in right order) 09 <--FIN/ACK--- 10 <--ACK--- 11 (processed in reverse order) 12 FIN_WAIT_2
Later, if the Process B sends SYN to Process A for reconnection using the same port, Process A will responds with an ACK for the last flow, which has no increased sequence number. Thus, Process A will send RST, wait for TIMEOUT_INIT (one second in default), and then try reconnection. If reconnections are frequent, the one second latency spikes can be a big problem. Below is a tcpdump results of the problem:
14.436259 IP 127.0.0.1.45150 > 127.0.0.1.4242: Flags [S], seq 2560603644 14.436266 IP 127.0.0.1.4242 > 127.0.0.1.45150: Flags [.], ack 5, win 512 14.436271 IP 127.0.0.1.45150 > 127.0.0.1.4242: Flags [R], seq 2541101298 /* ONE SECOND DELAY */ 15.464613 IP 127.0.0.1.45150 > 127.0.0.1.4242: Flags [S], seq 2560603644
This commit mitigates the problem by reducing the delay for the next SYN if the suspicous ACK is received while in SYN_SENT state.
Following commit will add a selftest, which can be also helpful for understanding of this issue.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park sjpark@amazon.de --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 2a976f57f7e7..baa4fee117f9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -5893,8 +5893,14 @@ static int tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, * the segment and return)" */ if (!after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq, tp->snd_una) || - after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq, tp->snd_nxt)) + after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq, tp->snd_nxt)) { + /* Previous FIN/ACK or RST/ACK might be ignored. */ + if (icsk->icsk_retransmits == 0) + inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, + ICSK_TIME_RETRANS, + TCP_TIMEOUT_MIN, TCP_RTO_MAX); goto reset_and_undo; + }
if (tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp && tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr && !between(tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr, tp->retrans_stamp,