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From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
To: Enke Chen <enkechen2020@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT accurate for zero window probes
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:19:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADVnQy=zzrFf=sF+oMwjm+Pp-VJ-veC93poVp0XUPFKRoiGRUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210123024534.GB100578@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 9:45 PM Enke Chen <enkechen2020@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Jakub:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 06:34:24PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:28:23 -0800 Enke Chen wrote:
> > > Hi, Jakub:
> > >
> > > In terms of backporting, this patch should go together with:
> > >
> > >     9d9b1ee0b2d1 tcp: fix TCP_USER_TIMEOUT with zero window
> >
> > As in it:
> >
> > Fixes: 9d9b1ee0b2d1 tcp: fix TCP_USER_TIMEOUT with zero window
> >
> > or does it further fix the same issue, so:
> >
> > Fixes: 9721e709fa68 ("tcp: simplify window probe aborting on USER_TIMEOUT")
> >
> > ?
>
> Let me clarify:
>
> 1) 9d9b1ee0b2d1 tcp: fix TCP_USER_TIMEOUT with zero window
>
>    fixes the bug and makes it work.
>
> 2) The current patch makes the TCP_USER_TIMEOUT accurate for 0-window probes.
>    It's independent.

Patch (2) ("tcp: make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT accurate for zero window
probes") is indeed conceptually independent of (1) but its
implementation depends on the icsk_probes_tstamp field defined in (1),
so AFAICT (2) cannot be backported further back than (1).

Patch (1) fixes a bug in 5.1:
    Fixes: 9721e709fa68 ("tcp: simplify window probe aborting on USER_TIMEOUT")

So probably (1) and (2) should be backported as a pair, and only back
as far as 5.1. (That covers 2 LTS kernels, 5.4 and 5.10, so hopefully
that is good enough.)

neal

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-24  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 19:13 [PATCH net] tcp: make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT accurate for zero window probes Enke Chen
2021-01-22 20:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-01-23  1:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-23  2:28   ` Enke Chen
2021-01-23  2:34     ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-23  2:45       ` Enke Chen
2021-01-24  0:19         ` Neal Cardwell [this message]
2021-01-24  0:56           ` Enke Chen
2021-01-24  3:36             ` Jakub Kicinski

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