From 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Heffner Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:53:41 -0800 Subject: [TCP]: MTU probing Implementation of packetization layer path mtu discovery for TCP, based on the internet-draft currently found at . Signed-off-by: John Heffner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c index e1880959614..7c1bde3cd6c 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c @@ -119,8 +119,10 @@ static int tcp_orphan_retries(struct sock *sk, int alive) /* A write timeout has occurred. Process the after effects. */ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock *sk) { - const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); + struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); + struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); int retry_until; + int mss; if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV)) { if (icsk->icsk_retransmits) @@ -128,25 +130,19 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock *sk) retry_until = icsk->icsk_syn_retries ? : sysctl_tcp_syn_retries; } else { if (icsk->icsk_retransmits >= sysctl_tcp_retries1) { - /* NOTE. draft-ietf-tcpimpl-pmtud-01.txt requires pmtu black - hole detection. :-( - - It is place to make it. It is not made. I do not want - to make it. It is disgusting. It does not work in any - case. Let me to cite the same draft, which requires for - us to implement this: - - "The one security concern raised by this memo is that ICMP black holes - are often caused by over-zealous security administrators who block - all ICMP messages. It is vitally important that those who design and - deploy security systems understand the impact of strict filtering on - upper-layer protocols. The safest web site in the world is worthless - if most TCP implementations cannot transfer data from it. It would - be far nicer to have all of the black holes fixed rather than fixing - all of the TCP implementations." - - Golden words :-). - */ + /* Black hole detection */ + if (sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing) { + if (!icsk->icsk_mtup.enabled) { + icsk->icsk_mtup.enabled = 1; + tcp_sync_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_pmtu_cookie); + } else { + mss = min(sysctl_tcp_base_mss, + tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low)/2); + mss = max(mss, 68 - tp->tcp_header_len); + icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low = tcp_mss_to_mtu(sk, mss); + tcp_sync_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_pmtu_cookie); + } + } dst_negative_advice(&sk->sk_dst_cache); } -- cgit v1.2.3