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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2024-03-26 16:42:24 +1100
committerStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>2024-03-26 09:52:04 +0100
commit4988e2b406313c579836dc31867d793cfe77535c (patch)
tree811fbe1905875fd9a5f5a1fa76e8c91f7f71456e
parent5894a245b93f3c848c3a42d1c625eef3656b2eec (diff)
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tcp: Unconditionally force ACK for all !SYN, !RST packetsHEAD2024_03_26.4988e2bmaster
Currently we set ACK on flags packets only when the acknowledged byte pointer has advanced, or we hadn't previously set a window. This means in particular that we can send a window update with no ACK flag, which doesn't appear to be correct. RFC 9293 requires a receiver to ignore such a packet [0], and indeed it appears that every non-SYN, non-RST packet should have the ACK flag. The reason for the existing logic, rather than always forcing an ACK seems to be to avoid having the packet mistaken as a duplicate ACK which might trigger a fast retransmit. However, earlier tests in the function mean we won't reach here if we don't have either an advance in the ack pointer - which will already set the ACK flag, or a window update - which shouldn't trigger a fast retransmit. [0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9293.html#section-3.10.7.4-2.5.2.1 Link: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/22146 Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=84 Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tcp.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tcp.c b/tcp.c
index b65ddeb..28562b7 100644
--- a/tcp.c
+++ b/tcp.c
@@ -1593,8 +1593,6 @@ static void tcp_update_seqack_from_tap(const struct ctx *c,
*/
static int tcp_send_flag(struct ctx *c, struct tcp_tap_conn *conn, int flags)
{
- uint32_t prev_ack_to_tap = conn->seq_ack_to_tap;
- uint32_t prev_wnd_to_tap = conn->wnd_to_tap;
struct tcp4_l2_flags_buf_t *b4 = NULL;
struct tcp6_l2_flags_buf_t *b6 = NULL;
struct tcp_info tinfo = { 0 };
@@ -1675,9 +1673,7 @@ static int tcp_send_flag(struct ctx *c, struct tcp_tap_conn *conn, int flags)
*data++ = OPT_WS_LEN;
*data++ = conn->ws_to_tap;
} else if (!(flags & RST)) {
- if (conn->seq_ack_to_tap != prev_ack_to_tap ||
- !prev_wnd_to_tap)
- flags |= ACK;
+ flags |= ACK;
}
th->doff = (sizeof(*th) + optlen) / 4;