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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: passt-dev@passt.top
Cc: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>, Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] tcp: Fixes for issues uncovered by tests with 6.17-rc1 kernels
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:10:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250815161042.3606244-1-sbrivio@redhat.com> (raw)

Starting from Linux kernel commit 1d2fbaad7cd8 ("tcp: stronger
sk_rcvbuf checks"), window limits are enforced more aggressively with
a bigger amount of zero-window updates compared to what happened with
e2142825c120 ("net: tcp: send zero-window ACK when no memory") alone,
and occasional duplicate ACKs can now be seen also for local transfers
with default (208 KiB) socket buffer sizes.

Paul reports that, with 6.17-rc1-ish kernels, Podman tests for the
pasta integration occasionally fail on the "TCP/IPv4 large transfer,
tap" case.

While playing with a reproducer that seems to be matching those
failures:

  while true; do ./pasta --trace -l /tmp/pasta.log -p /tmp/pasta.pcap --config-net -t 5555 -- socat TCP-LISTEN:5555 OPEN:/tmp/large.rcv,trunc & (sleep 0.3; socat -T2 OPEN:large.bin TCP:88.198.0.164:5555; ); wait; diff large.bin /tmp/large.rcv || break; done

and a kernel including that commit, I hit a few different failures,
that should be fixed by this series.

Stefano Brivio (6):
  tcp: FIN flags have to be retransmitted as well
  tcp: Factor sequence rewind for retransmissions into a new function
  tcp: Rewind sequence when guest shrinks window to zero
  tcp: Fix closing logic for half-closed connections
  tcp: Don't try to transmit right after the peer shrank the window to
    zero
  tcp: Fast re-transmit if half-closed, make TAP_FIN_RCVD path
    consistent

 tcp.c | 170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 118 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-08-15 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-15 16:10 Stefano Brivio [this message]
2025-08-15 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] tcp: FIN flags have to be retransmitted as well Stefano Brivio
2025-08-15 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/6] tcp: Factor sequence rewind for retransmissions into a new function Stefano Brivio
2025-08-15 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/6] tcp: Rewind sequence when guest shrinks window to zero Stefano Brivio
2025-08-15 16:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] tcp: Fix closing logic for half-closed connections Stefano Brivio
2025-08-15 16:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] tcp: Don't try to transmit right after the peer shrank the window to zero Stefano Brivio
2025-08-15 16:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] tcp: Fast re-transmit if half-closed, make TAP_FIN_RCVD path consistent Stefano Brivio

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