tcp_bbr: fix to zero idle_restart only upon S/ACKed data
authorNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Wed, 2 May 2018 01:45:41 +0000 (21:45 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 19 May 2018 08:20:25 +0000 (10:20 +0200)
commit3cfe95a0eb027ff81c76bd7b01136e85158dd62e
treeab588dbb0b16e4a0f9e69dd5b76d577a1ec257fc
parentbf2f3bae31a2a0bf3b213a03c58053e9e793f81c
tcp_bbr: fix to zero idle_restart only upon S/ACKed data

[ Upstream commit e6e6a278b1eaffa19d42186bfacd1ffc15a50b3f ]

Previously the bbr->idle_restart tracking was zeroing out the
bbr->idle_restart bit upon ACKs that did not SACK or ACK anything,
e.g. receiving incoming data or receiver window updates. In such
situations BBR would forget that this was a restart-from-idle
situation, and if the min_rtt had expired it would unnecessarily enter
PROBE_RTT (even though we were actually restarting from idle but had
merely forgotten that fact).

The fix is simple: we need to remember we are restarting from idle
until we receive a S/ACK for some data (a S/ACK for the first flight
of data we send as we are restarting).

This commit is a stable candidate for kernels back as far as 4.9.

Fixes: 0f8782ea1497 ("tcp_bbr: add BBR congestion control")
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yousuk Seung <ysseung@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c