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tcp: Discard segments that ack data not yet sent
authorJohn Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:49:57 +0000 (21:49 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:49:57 +0000 (21:49 -0700)
Discard incoming packets whose ack field iincludes data not yet sent.
This is consistent with RFC 793 Section 3.9.

Change tcp_ack() to distinguish between too-small and too-large ack
field values.  Keep segments with too-large ack fields out of the fast
path, and change slow path to discard them.

Reported-by: Oliver Zheng <mailinglists+netdev@oliverzheng.com>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

index 8ac82b3703ab176c20ad3e861c094254e7471164..2bc8e27a163daafed09a3bf2ee6a145414848d72 100644 (file)
@@ -3585,15 +3585,18 @@ static int tcp_ack(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int flag)
        int prior_packets;
        int frto_cwnd = 0;
 
-       /* If the ack is newer than sent or older than previous acks
+       /* If the ack is older than previous acks
         * then we can probably ignore it.
         */
-       if (after(ack, tp->snd_nxt))
-               goto uninteresting_ack;
-
        if (before(ack, prior_snd_una))
                goto old_ack;
 
+       /* If the ack includes data we haven't sent yet, discard
+        * this segment (RFC793 Section 3.9).
+        */
+       if (after(ack, tp->snd_nxt))
+               goto invalid_ack;
+
        if (after(ack, prior_snd_una))
                flag |= FLAG_SND_UNA_ADVANCED;
 
@@ -3683,6 +3686,10 @@ no_queue:
                tcp_ack_probe(sk);
        return 1;
 
+invalid_ack:
+       SOCK_DEBUG(sk, "Ack %u after %u:%u\n", ack, tp->snd_una, tp->snd_nxt);
+       return -1;
+
 old_ack:
        if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->sacked) {
                tcp_sacktag_write_queue(sk, skb, prior_snd_una);
@@ -3690,8 +3697,7 @@ old_ack:
                        tcp_try_keep_open(sk);
        }
 
-uninteresting_ack:
-       SOCK_DEBUG(sk, "Ack %u out of %u:%u\n", ack, tp->snd_una, tp->snd_nxt);
+       SOCK_DEBUG(sk, "Ack %u before %u:%u\n", ack, tp->snd_una, tp->snd_nxt);
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -5141,7 +5147,8 @@ int tcp_rcv_established(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
         */
 
        if ((tcp_flag_word(th) & TCP_HP_BITS) == tp->pred_flags &&
-           TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == tp->rcv_nxt) {
+           TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == tp->rcv_nxt &&
+           !after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq, tp->snd_nxt)) {
                int tcp_header_len = tp->tcp_header_len;
 
                /* Timestamp header prediction: tcp_header_len
@@ -5294,8 +5301,8 @@ slow_path:
                return -res;
 
 step5:
-       if (th->ack)
-               tcp_ack(sk, skb, FLAG_SLOWPATH);
+       if (th->ack && tcp_ack(sk, skb, FLAG_SLOWPATH) < 0)
+               goto discard;
 
        tcp_rcv_rtt_measure_ts(sk, skb);
 
@@ -5632,7 +5639,7 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
        /* step 5: check the ACK field */
        if (th->ack) {
-               int acceptable = tcp_ack(sk, skb, FLAG_SLOWPATH);
+               int acceptable = tcp_ack(sk, skb, FLAG_SLOWPATH) > 0;
 
                switch (sk->sk_state) {
                case TCP_SYN_RECV: