Commit 795a7dfb authored by Menglong Dong's avatar Menglong Dong Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net: tcp: accept old ack during closing



For now, the packet with an old ack is not accepted if we are in
FIN_WAIT1 state, which can cause retransmission. Taking the following
case as an example:

    Client                               Server
      |                                    |
  FIN_WAIT1(Send FIN, seq=10)          FIN_WAIT1(Send FIN, seq=20, ack=10)
      |                                    |
      |                                Send ACK(seq=21, ack=11)
   Recv ACK(seq=21, ack=11)
      |
   Recv FIN(seq=20, ack=10)

In the case above, simultaneous close is happening, and the FIN and ACK
packet that send from the server is out of order. Then, the FIN will be
dropped by the client, as it has an old ack. Then, the server has to
retransmit the FIN, which can cause delay if the server has set the
SO_LINGER on the socket.

Old ack is accepted in the ESTABLISHED and TIME_WAIT state, and I think
it should be better to keep the same logic.

In this commit, we accept old ack in FIN_WAIT1/FIN_WAIT2/CLOSING/LAST_ACK
states. Maybe we should limit it to FIN_WAIT1 for now?

Signed-off-by: default avatarMenglong Dong <menglong8.dong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240126040519.1846345-1-menglong8.dong@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 67475eb9
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