kernel/include/net/tcp.h, branch linux-3.0.y

tcp: force a dst refcount when prequeue packet

2013-05-19T17:04:42Z

[ Upstream commit 093162553c33e9479283e107b4431378271c735d ] Before escaping RCU protected section and adding packet into prequeue, make sure the dst is refcounted. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2

2013-01-11T17:03:48Z

[ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 ] Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: Remove debug macro of TCP_CHECK_TIMER

2011-02-20T19:10:14Z

Now, TCP_CHECK_TIMER is not used for debuging, it does nothing. And, it has been there for several years, maybe 6 years. Remove it to keep code clearer. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Add reference to initial CWND ietf draft.

2011-02-06T02:13:45Z

Suggested by Alexander Zimmermann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Increase the initial congestion window to 10.

2011-02-03T04:48:47Z

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati

net: change netdev->features to u32

2011-01-24T23:32:47Z

Quoting Ben Hutchings: we presumably won't be defining features that can only be enabled on 64-bit architectures. Occurences found by `grep -r` on net/, drivers/net, include/ [ Move features and vlan_features next to each other in struct netdev, as per Eric Dumazet's suggestion -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

TCP: increase default initial receive window.

2010-12-21T05:33:00Z

This patch changes the default initial receive window to 10 mss (defined constant). The default window is limited to the maximum of 10*1460 and 2*mss (when mss > 1460). draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-00 is a proposal to the IETF that recommends increasing TCP's initial congestion window to 10 mss or about 15KB. Leading up to this proposal were several large-scale live Internet experiments with an initial congestion window of 10 mss (IW10), where we showed that the average latency of HTTP responses improved by approximately 10%. This was accompanied by a slight increase in retransmission rate (0.5%), most of which is coming from applications opening multiple simultaneous connections. To understand the extreme worst case scenarios, and fairness issues (IW10 versus IW3), we further conducted controlled testbed experiments. We came away finding minimal negative impact even under low link bandwidths (dial-ups) and small buffers. These results are extremely encouraging to adopting IW10. However, an initial congestion window of 10 mss is useless unless a TCP receiver advertises an initial receive window of at least 10 mss. Fortunately, in the large-scale Internet experiments we found that most widely used operating systems advertised large initial receive windows of 64KB, allowing us to experiment with a wide range of initial congestion windows. Linux systems were among the few exceptions that advertised a small receive window of 6KB. The purpose of this patch is to fix this shortcoming. References: 1. A comprehensive list of all IW10 references to date. http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html 2. Paper describing results from large-scale Internet experiments with IW10. http://ccr.sigcomm.org/drupal/?q=node/621 3. Controlled testbed experiments under worst case scenarios and a fairness study. http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/79/slides/tcpm-0.pdf 4. Raw test data from testbed experiments (Linux senders/receivers) with initial congestion and receive windows of both 10 mss. http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/netsrv/?q=content/iw10 5. Internet-Draft. Increasing TCP's Initial Window. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd/ Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: kill unused macros

2010-12-20T05:59:35Z

These macros never be used, so remove them. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: relax tcp_paws_check()

2010-12-16T22:08:34Z

Some windows versions have wrong RFC1323 implementations, with SYN and SYNACKS messages containing zero tcp timestamps. We relaxed in commit fc1ad92dfc4e363 the passive connection case (Windows connects to a linux machine), but the reverse case (linux connects to a Windows machine) has an analogue problem when tsvals from windows machine are 'negative' (high order bit set) : PAWS triggers and we drops incoming messages. Fix this by making zero ts_recent value special, allowing frame to be processed. Based on a report and initial patch from Dmitiy Balakin Bugzilla reference : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24842 Reported-by: dmitriy.balakin@nicneiron.ru Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: kill unused macros from head file

2010-12-02T21:27:33Z

These macros have been defined for several years since v2.6.12-rc2（tracing by git）, but never be used. So remove them. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei Signed-off-by: David S. Miller