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David S. Miller 92101b3b2e ipv4: Prepare for change of rt->rt_iif encoding.
Use inet_iif() consistently, and for TCP record the input interface of
cached RX dst in inet sock.

rt->rt_iif is going to be encoded differently, so that we can
legitimately cache input routes in the FIB info more aggressively.

When the input interface is "use SKB device index" the rt->rt_iif will
be set to zero.

This forces us to move the TCP RX dst cache installation into the ipv4
specific code, and as well it should since doing the route caching for
ipv6 is pointless at the moment since it is not inspected in the ipv6
input paths yet.

Also, remove the unlikely on dst->obsolete, all ipv4 dsts have
obsolete set to a non-zero value to force invocation of the check
callback.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-23 16:36:26 -07:00
David S. Miller ba3f7f04ef ipv4: Kill FLOWI_FLAG_RT_NOCACHE and associated code.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-20 13:36:54 -07:00
David S. Miller 6700c2709c net: Pass optional SKB and SK arguments to dst_ops->{update_pmtu,redirect}()
This will be used so that we can compose a full flow key.

Even though we have a route in this context, we need more.  In the
future the routes will be without destination address, source address,
etc. keying.  One ipv4 route will cover entire subnets, etc.

In this environment we have to have a way to possess persistent storage
for redirects and PMTU information.  This persistent storage will exist
in the FIB tables, and that's why we'll need to be able to rebuild a
full lookup flow key here.  Using that flow key will do a fib_lookup()
and create/update the persistent entry.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-17 03:29:28 -07:00
David S. Miller 35ad9b9cf7 ipv6: Add helper inet6_csk_update_pmtu().
This is the ipv6 version of inet_csk_update_pmtu().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-16 03:44:56 -07:00
David S. Miller 80d0a69fc5 ipv4: Add helper inet_csk_update_pmtu().
This abstracts away the call to dst_ops->update_pmtu() so that we can
transparently handle the fact that, in the future, the dst itself can
be invalidated by the PMTU update (when we have non-host routes cached
in sockets).

So we try to rebuild the socket cached route after the method
invocation if necessary.

This isn't used by SCTP because it needs to cache dsts per-transport,
and thus will need it's own local version of this helper.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-16 03:28:06 -07:00
David S. Miller 1ed5c48f23 net: Remove checks for dst_ops->redirect being NULL.
No longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-12 00:41:25 -07:00
David S. Miller ec18d9a269 ipv6: Add redirect support to all protocol icmp error handlers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-12 00:25:15 -07:00
David S. Miller 55be7a9c60 ipv4: Add redirect support to all protocol icmp error handlers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-11 21:27:49 -07:00
Ben Hutchings 2c53040f01 net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
RongQing.Li 0979e465c5 dccp: remove unnecessary codes in ipv6.c
opt always equals np->opts, so it is meaningless to define opt, and
check if opt does not equal np->opts and then try to free opt.

Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-05 03:11:15 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 7586eceb0a ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookies
Don't cache output dst for syncookies, as this adds pressure on IP route
cache and rcu subsystem for no gain.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-22 21:47:33 -07:00
David S. Miller 81aded2467 ipv6: Handle PMTU in ICMP error handlers.
One tricky issue on the ipv6 side vs. ipv4 is that the ICMP callouts
to handle the error pass the 32-bit info cookie in network byte order
whereas ipv4 passes it around in host byte order.

Like the ipv4 side, we have two helper functions.  One for when we
have a socket context and one for when we do not.

ip6ip6 tunnels are not handled here, because they handle PMTU events
by essentially relaying another ICMP packet-too-big message back to
the original sender.

This patch allows us to get rid of rt6_do_pmtu_disc().  It handles all
kinds of situations that simply cannot happen when we do the PMTU
update directly using a fully resolved route.

In fact, the "plen == 128" check in ip6_rt_update_pmtu() can very
likely be removed or changed into a BUG_ON() check.  We should never
have a prefixed ipv6 route when we get there.

Another piece of strange history here is that TCP and DCCP, unlike in
ipv4, never invoke the update_pmtu() method from their ICMP error
handlers.  This is incredibly astonishing since this is the context
where we have the most accurate context in which to make a PMTU
update, namely we have a fully connected socket and associated cached
socket route.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-15 14:54:11 -07:00
Eric Dumazet dc6b9b7823 net: include/net/sock.h cleanup
bool/const conversions where possible

__inline__ -> inline

space cleanups

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-17 04:50:21 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman ec8f23ce0f net: Convert all sysctl registrations to register_net_sysctl
This results in code with less boiler plate that is a bit easier
to read.

Additionally stops us from using compatibility code in the sysctl
core, hastening the day when the compatibility code can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-20 21:22:30 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman 5dd3df105b net: Move all of the network sysctls without a namespace into init_net.
This makes it clearer which sysctls are relative to your current network
namespace.

This makes it a little less error prone by not exposing sysctls for the
initial network namespace in other namespaces.

This is the same way we handle all of our other network interfaces to
userspace and I can't honestly remember why we didn't do this for
sysctls right from the start.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-20 21:21:17 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 7604adc2ff ipv6: dccp: dont drop packet but consume it
When we need to clone skb, we dont drop a packet.
Call consume_skb() to not confuse dropwatch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-19 14:23:55 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 95c9617472 net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
Eric Dumazet c72e118334 inet: makes syn_ack_timeout mandatory
There are two struct request_sock_ops providers, tcp and dccp.

inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune() can avoid testing syn_ack_timeout being
NULL if we make it non NULL like syn_ack_timeout

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Cc: dccp@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-14 15:24:26 -04:00
Samuel Jero f541fb7e20 dccp: fix bug in sequence number validation during connection setup
This fixes a bug in the sequence number validation during the initial handshake.

The code did not treat the initial sequence numbers ISS and ISR as read-only and
did not keep state for GSR and GSS as required by the specification. This causes
problems with retransmissions during the initial handshake, causing the
budding connection to be reset.

This patch now treats ISS/ISR as read-only and tracks GSS/GSR as required.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2012-03-03 09:02:52 -07:00
Gerrit Renker 793734b587 dccp ccid-3: replace incorrect BUG_ON
This replaces an unjustified BUG_ON(), which could get triggered under normal
conditions: X_calc can be 0 when p > 0. X would in this case be set to the
minimum, s/t_mbi. Its replacement avoids t_ipi = 0 (unbounded sending rate).

Thanks to Jordi, Victor and Xavier who reported this.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.uk>
2012-03-03 09:02:36 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov c8991362a0 inet_diag: Rename inet_diag_req into inet_diag_req_v2
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-11 12:56:06 -08:00
Rusty Russell eb93992207 module_param: make bool parameters really bool (net & drivers/net)
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.

It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option.  For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

(Thanks to Joe Perches for suggesting coccinelle for 0/1 -> true/false).

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-19 22:27:29 -05:00
Rusty Russell 3db1cd5c05 net: fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables.
DaveM said:
   Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly
   drives me crazy.

Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> gave me the spatch script:

	@@
	bool b;
	@@
	-b = 0
	+b = false
	@@
	bool b;
	@@
	-b = 1
	+b = true

I merely installed coccinelle, read the documentation and took credit.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-19 22:27:29 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov aec8dc62f6 sock_diag: Fix module netlink aliases
I've made a mistake when fixing the sock_/inet_diag aliases :(

1. The sock_diag layer should request the family-based alias,
   not just the IPPROTO_IP one;
2. The inet_diag layer should request for AF_INET+protocol alias,
   not just the protocol one.

Thus fix this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-16 13:48:27 -05:00
Eric Dumazet dfd56b8b38 net: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-11 18:25:16 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov 1942c518ca inet_diag: Generalize inet_diag dump and get_exact calls
Introduce two callbacks in inet_diag_handler -- one for dumping all
sockets (with filters) and the other one for dumping a single sk.

Replace direct calls to icsk handlers with indirect calls to callbacks
provided by handlers.

Make existing TCP and DCCP handlers use provided helpers for icsk-s.

The UDP diag module will provide its own.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-09 14:14:08 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov 7b35eadd7e inet_diag: Remove indirect sizeof from inet diag handlers
There's an info_size value stored on inet_diag_handler, but for existing
code this value is effectively constant, so just use sizeof(struct tcp_info)
where required.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-09 14:14:07 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov f13c95f0e2 inet_diag: Switch from _GETSOCK to IPPROTO_ numbers
Sorry, but the vger didn't let this message go to the list. Re-sending it with
less spam-filter-prone subject.

When dumping the AF_INET/AF_INET6 sockets user will also specify the protocol,
so prepare the protocol diag handlers to work with IPPROTO_ constants.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:58:01 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov 7f1fb60c4f inet_diag: Partly rename inet_ to sock_
The ultimate goal is to get the sock_diag module, that works in
family+protocol terms. Currently this is suitable to do on the
inet_diag basis, so rename parts of the code. It will be moved
to sock_diag.c later.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:57:36 -05:00
David S. Miller d984e6197e dccp: Fix compile warning in probe code.
Commit 1386be55e3 ("dccp: fix
auto-loading of dccp(_probe)") fixed a bug but created a new
compiler warning:

net/dccp/probe.c: In function ‘dccpprobe_init’:
net/dccp/probe.c:166:2: warning: the omitted middle operand in ?: will always be ‘true’, suggest explicit middle operand [-Wparentheses]

try_then_request_module() is built for situations where the
"existence" test is some lookup function that returns a non-NULL
object on success, and with a reference count of some kind held.

Here we're looking for a success return of zero from the jprobe
registry.

Instead of fighting the way try_then_request_module() works, simply
open code what we want to happen in a local helper function.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-01 14:45:49 -05:00
David S. Miller 898f73585b dccp: Evaluate ip_hdr() only once in dccp_v4_route_skb().
This also works around a bogus gcc warning generated by an
upcoming patch from Eric Dumazet that rearranges the layout
of struct flowi4.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-01 13:28:34 -05:00
David S. Miller 6dec4ac4ee Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
2011-11-26 14:47:03 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan 4e3fd7a06d net: remove ipv6_addr_copy()
C assignment can handle struct in6_addr copying.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-22 16:43:32 -05:00
RongQing.Li 525c6465d4 dccp: fix error propagation in dccp_v4_connect
The errcode is not updated when ip_route_newports() fails.

Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-21 16:45:26 -05:00
Eric Dumazet e56c57d0d3 net: rename sk_clone to sk_clone_lock
Make clear that sk_clone() and inet_csk_clone() return a locked socket.

Add _lock() prefix and kerneldoc.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-08 17:07:07 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 918eb39962 net: add missing bh_unlock_sock() calls
Simon Kirby reported lockdep warnings and following messages :

[104661.897577] huh, entered softirq 3 NET_RX ffffffff81613740
preempt_count 00000101, exited with 00000102?

[104661.923653] huh, entered softirq 3 NET_RX ffffffff81613740
preempt_count 00000101, exited with 00000102?

Problem comes from commit 0e734419
(ipv4: Use inet_csk_route_child_sock() in DCCP and TCP.)

If inet_csk_route_child_sock() returns NULL, we should release socket
lock before freeing it.

Another lock imbalance exists if __inet_inherit_port() returns an error
since commit 093d282321 ( tproxy: fix hash locking issue when using
port redirection in __inet_inherit_port()) a backport is also needed for
>= 2.6.37 kernels.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
CC: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-03 18:06:18 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker bc3b2d7fb9 net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker d9b9384215 net: add moduleparam.h for users of module_param/MODULE_PARM_DESC
These files were getting access to these two via the implicit
presence of module.h everywhere.  They aren't modules, so they
don't need the full module.h inclusion though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:29 -04:00
Eric Dumazet b903d324be ipv6: tcp: fix TCLASS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT
commit 66b13d99d9 (ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from
TIME_WAIT) fixed IPv4 only.

This part is for the IPv6 side, adding a tclass param to ip6_xmit()

We alias tw_tclass and tw_tos, if socket family is INET6.

[ if sockets is ipv4-mapped, only IP_TOS socket option is used to fill
TOS field, TCLASS is not taken into account ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-27 00:44:35 -04:00
David S. Miller 19fd61785a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-08-07 23:20:26 -07:00
David S. Miller 6e5714eaf7 net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.
Computers have become a lot faster since we compromised on the
partial MD4 hash which we use currently for performance reasons.

MD5 is a much safer choice, and is inline with both RFC1948 and
other ISS generators (OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.)

Furthermore, only having 24-bits of the sequence number be truly
unpredictable is a very serious limitation.  So the periodic
regeneration and 8-bit counter have been removed.  We compute and
use a full 32-bit sequence number.

For ipv6, DCCP was found to use a 32-bit truncated initial sequence
number (it needs 43-bits) and that is fixed here as well.

Reported-by: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-06 18:33:19 -07:00
Samuel Jero d96a9e8dd0 dccp ccid-2: check Ack Ratio when reducing cwnd
This patch causes CCID-2 to check the Ack Ratio after reducing the congestion
window. If the Ack Ratio is greater than the congestion window, it is
reduced. This prevents timeouts caused by an Ack Ratio larger than the
congestion window.

In this situation, we choose to set the Ack Ratio to half the congestion window
(or one if that's zero) so that if we loose one ack we don't trigger a timeout.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu> 
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:36 -06:00
Samuel Jero 0ce95dc792 dccp ccid-2: increment cwnd correctly
This patch fixes an issue where CCID-2 will not increase the congestion
window for numerous RTTs after an idle period, application-limited period,
or a loss once the algorithm is in Congestion Avoidance.

What happens is that, when CCID-2 is in Congestion Avoidance mode, it will
increase hc->tx_packets_acked by one for every packet and will increment cwnd
every cwnd packets. However, if there is now an idle period in the connection,
cwnd will be reduced, possibly below the slow start threshold. This will
cause the connection to go into Slow Start. However, in Slow Start CCID-2
performs this test to increment cwnd every second ack:

	++hc->tx_packets_acked == 2

Unfortunately, this will be incorrect, if cwnd previous to the idle period
was larger than 2 and if tx_packets_acked was close to cwnd. For example:
	cwnd=50  and  tx_packets_acked=45.

In this case, the current code, will increment tx_packets_acked until it
equals two, which will only be once tx_packets_acked (an unsigned 32-bit
integer) overflows.

My fix is simply to change that test for tx_packets_acked greater than or
equal to two in slow start.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:36 -06:00
Samuel Jero d346d886a4 dccp ccid-2: prevent cwnd > Sequence Window
Add a check to prevent CCID-2 from increasing the cwnd greater than the
Sequence Window.

When the congestion window becomes bigger than the Sequence Window, CCID-2
will attempt to keep more data in the network than the DCCP Sequence Window
code considers possible. This results in the Sequence Window code issuing
a Sync, thereby inducing needless overhead. Further, if this occurs at the
sender, CCID-2 will never detect the problem because the Acks it receives
will indicate no losses. I have seen this cause a drop of 1/3rd in throughput
for a connection.

Also add code to adjust the Sequence Window to be about 5 times the number of
packets in the network (RFC 4340, 7.5.2) and to adjust the Ack Ratio so that
the remote Sequence Window will hold about 5 times the number of packets in
the network. This allows the congestion window to increase correctly without
being limited by the Sequence Window.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:35 -06:00
Gerrit Renker 31daf0393f dccp ccid-2: use feature-negotiation to report Ack Ratio changes
This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes,
as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2.

That raises some problems with CCID-2, which at the moment can not cope
gracefully with Ack Ratios > 1. Since these issues are not directly related
to feature negotiation, they are marked by a FIXME.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:35 -06:00
Samuel Jero a6444f4237 dccp: send Confirm options only once
If a connection is in the OPEN state, remove feature negotiation Confirm
options from the list of options after sending them once; as such options
are NOT supposed to be retransmitted and are ONLY supposed to be sent in
response to a Change option (RFC 4340 6.2).

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:35 -06:00
Gerrit Renker 44e6fd9e67 dccp: support for exchanging of NN options in established state 2/2
This patch adds the receiver side and the (fast-path) activation part for
dynamic changes of non-negotiable (NN) parameters in (PART)OPEN state.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:34 -06:00
Gerrit Renker d6916f87ca dccp: support for the exchange of NN options in established state 1/2
In contrast to static feature negotiation at the begin of a connection, this
patch introduces support for exchange of dynamically changing options.

Such an update/exchange is necessary in at least two cases:
 * CCID-2's Ack Ratio (RFC 4341, 6.1.2) which changes during the connection;
 * Sequence Window values that, as per RFC 4340, 7.5.2, should be sent "as
   the connection progresses".

Both are non-negotiable (NN) features, which means that no new capabilities
are negotiated, but rather that changes in known parameters are brought
up-to-date at either end.

Thse characteristics are reflected by the implementation:
 * only NN options can be exchanged after connection setup;
 * an ack is scheduled directly after activation to speed up the update;
 * CCIDs may request changes to an NN feature even if a negotiation for that
   feature is already underway: this is required by CCID-2, where changes in
   cwnd necessitate Ack Ratio changes, such that the previous Ack Ratio (which
   is still being negotiated) would cause irrecoverable RTO timeouts (thanks
   to work by Samuel Jero).	   

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero <sj323707@ohio.edu>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.uk>
2011-08-01 07:52:34 -06:00
Gerrit Renker 113ced1f52 dccp ccid-2: Perform congestion-window validation
CCID-2's cwnd increases like TCP during slow-start, which has implications for
 * the local Sequence Window value (should be > cwnd),
 * the Ack Ratio value.
Hence an exponential growth, if it does not reflect the actual network
conditions, can quickly lead to instability.

This patch adds congestion-window validation (RFC2861) to CCID-2:
 * cwnd is constrained if the sender is application limited;
 * cwnd is reduced after a long idle period, as suggested in the '90 paper
   by Van Jacobson, in RFC 2581 (sec. 4.1);
 * cwnd is never reduced below the RFC 3390 initial window.

As marked in the comments, the code is actually almost a direct copy of the
TCP congestion-window-validation algorithms. By continuing this work, it may
in future be possible to use the TCP code (not possible at the moment).

The mechanism can be turned off using a module parameter. Sampling of the
currently-used window (moving-maximum) is however done constantly; this is
used to determine the expected window, which can be exploited to regulate
DCCP's Sequence Window value.

This patch also sets slow-start-after-idle (RFC 4341, 5.1), i.e. it behaves like
TCP when net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 1.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-07-04 12:37:49 -06:00