Commit c3e0507d authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Lee Jones
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tcp/dccp: drop SYN packets if accept queue is full



commit 5ea8ea2c upstream.

Per listen(fd, backlog) rules, there is really no point accepting a SYN,
sending a SYNACK, and dropping the following ACK packet if accept queue
is full, because application is not draining accept queue fast enough.

This behavior is fooling TCP clients that believe they established a
flow, while there is nothing at server side. They might then send about
10 MSS (if using IW10) that will be dropped anyway while server is under
stress.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <joneslee@google.com>
Change-Id: I212d9a1bd6247eb9ca6d4085fd1cbb53a2b89cde
parent 056b1669
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