From dcb17d22e1c2cd72e72190c736349a675362b3bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 18:37:13 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: warn on bogus MSS and try to amend it There have been some reports lately about TCP connection stalls caused by NIC drivers that aren't setting gso_size on aggregated packets on rx path. This causes TCP to assume that the MSS is actually the size of the aggregated packet, which is invalid. Although the proper fix is to be done at each driver, it's often hard and cumbersome for one to debug, come to such root cause and report/fix it. This patch amends this situation in two ways. First, it adds a warning on when this situation occurs, so it gives a hint to those trying to debug this. It also limit the maximum probed MSS to the adverised MSS, as it should never be any higher than that. The result is that the connection may not have the best performance ever but it shouldn't stall, and the admin will have a hint on what to look for. Tested with virtio by forcing gso_size to 0. v2: updated msg per David's suggestion v3: use skb_iif to find the interface and also log its name, per Eric Dumazet's suggestion. As the skb may be backlogged and the interface gone by then, we need to check if the number still has a meaning. v4: use helper tcp_gro_dev_warn() and avoid pr_warn_once inside __once, per David's suggestion Cc: Jonathan Maxwell Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index a27b9c0e27c0..c71d49ce0c93 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -128,6 +128,23 @@ int sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit __read_mostly = HZ/2; #define REXMIT_LOST 1 /* retransmit packets marked lost */ #define REXMIT_NEW 2 /* FRTO-style transmit of unsent/new packets */ +static void tcp_gro_dev_warn(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + static bool __once __read_mostly; + + if (!__once) { + struct net_device *dev; + + __once = true; + + rcu_read_lock(); + dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), skb->skb_iif); + pr_warn("%s: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP performance may be compromised.\n", + dev ? dev->name : "Unknown driver"); + rcu_read_unlock(); + } +} + /* Adapt the MSS value used to make delayed ack decision to the * real world. */ @@ -144,7 +161,10 @@ static void tcp_measure_rcv_mss(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb) */ len = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size ? : skb->len; if (len >= icsk->icsk_ack.rcv_mss) { - icsk->icsk_ack.rcv_mss = len; + icsk->icsk_ack.rcv_mss = min_t(unsigned int, len, + tcp_sk(sk)->advmss); + if (unlikely(icsk->icsk_ack.rcv_mss != len)) + tcp_gro_dev_warn(sk, skb); } else { /* Otherwise, we make more careful check taking into account, * that SACKs block is variable. -- 2.20.1