tcp: avoid too many retransmit packets

commit 97a9063518f198ec0adb2ecb89789de342bb8283 upstream.

If a TCP socket is using TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, and the other peer
retracted its window to zero, tcp_retransmit_timer() can
retransmit a packet every two jiffies (2 ms for HZ=1000),
for about 4 minutes after TCP_USER_TIMEOUT has 'expired'.

The fix is to make sure tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out() takes
icsk->icsk_user_timeout into account.

Before blamed commit, the socket would not timeout after
icsk->icsk_user_timeout, but would use standard exponential
backoff for the retransmits.

Also worth noting that before commit e89688e3e978 ("net: tcp:
fix unexcepted socket die when snd_wnd is 0"), the issue
would last 2 minutes instead of 4.

Fixes: b701a99e431d ("tcp: Add tcp_clamp_rto_to_user_timeout() helper to improve accuracy")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240710001402.2758273-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 12f0cbd0f8cc..3b168faf032c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -414,22 +414,34 @@ static void tcp_fastopen_synack_timer(struct sock *sk)
 static bool tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out(const struct sock *sk,
 				     const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
+	u32 user_timeout = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_user_timeout);
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
-	const int timeout = TCP_RTO_MAX * 2;
+	int timeout = TCP_RTO_MAX * 2;
 	u32 rtx_delta;
 	s32 rcv_delta;
 
+	rtx_delta = (u32)msecs_to_jiffies(tcp_time_stamp(tp) -
+			(tp->retrans_stamp ?: tcp_skb_timestamp(skb)));
+
+	if (user_timeout) {
+		/* If user application specified a TCP_USER_TIMEOUT,
+		 * it does not want win 0 packets to 'reset the timer'
+		 * while retransmits are not making progress.
+		 */
+		if (rtx_delta > user_timeout)
+			return true;
+		timeout = min_t(u32, timeout, msecs_to_jiffies(user_timeout));
+	}
+
 	/* Note: timer interrupt might have been delayed by at least one jiffy,
 	 * and tp->rcv_tstamp might very well have been written recently.
 	 * rcv_delta can thus be negative.
 	 */
-	rcv_delta = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_timeout - tp->rcv_tstamp;
+	rcv_delta = icsk->icsk_timeout - tp->rcv_tstamp;
 	if (rcv_delta <= timeout)
 		return false;
 
-	rtx_delta = (u32)msecs_to_jiffies(tcp_time_stamp(tp) -
-			(tp->retrans_stamp ?: tcp_skb_timestamp(skb)));
-
 	return rtx_delta > timeout;
 }