Commit 71204231 authored by Tuong Lien's avatar Tuong Lien Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: fix false detection of retransmit failures 



This commit eliminates the use of the link 'stale_limit' & 'prev_from'
(besides the already removed - 'stale_cnt') variables in the detection
of repeated retransmit failures as there is no proper way to initialize
them to avoid a false detection, i.e. it is not really a retransmission
failure but due to a garbage values in the variables.

Instead, a jiffies variable will be added to individual skbs (like the
way we restrict the skb retransmissions) in order to mark the first skb
retransmit time. Later on, at the next retransmissions, the timestamp
will be checked to see if the skb in the link transmq is "too stale",
that is, the link tolerance time has passed, so that a link reset will
be ordered. Note, just checking on the first skb in the queue is fine
enough since it must be the oldest one.
A counter is also added to keep track the actual skb retransmissions'
number for later checking when the failure happens.

The downside of this approach is that the skb->cb[] buffer is about to
be exhausted, however it is always able to allocate another memory area
and keep a reference to it when needed.

Fixes: 77cf8edb ("tipc: simplify stale link failure criteria")
Reported-by: default avatarHoang Le <hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au>
Acked-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b9cbf8a6

net/tipc/link.c

+52 −40
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ struct tipc_stats { 
 * @transmitq: queue for sent, non-acked messages

 * @backlogq: queue for messages waiting to be sent

 * @snt_nxt: next sequence number to use for outbound messages

 * @prev_from: sequence number of most previous retransmission request

 * @stale_limit: time when repeated identical retransmits must force link reset

 * @ackers: # of peers that needs to ack each packet before it can be released

 * @acked: # last packet acked by a certain peer. Used for broadcast.

 * @rcv_nxt: next sequence number to expect for inbound messages
@@ -164,9 +162,7 @@ struct tipc_link { 
		u16 limit;

	} backlog[5];

	u16 snd_nxt;

	u16 prev_from;

	u16 window;

	unsigned long stale_limit;



	/* Reception */

	u16 rcv_nxt;
@@ -1044,47 +1040,53 @@ static void tipc_link_advance_backlog(struct tipc_link *l, 
 * link_retransmit_failure() - Detect repeated retransmit failures

 * @l: tipc link sender

 * @r: tipc link receiver (= l in case of unicast)

 * @from: seqno of the 1st packet in retransmit request

 * @rc: returned code

 *

 * Return: true if the repeated retransmit failures happens, otherwise

 * false

 */

static bool link_retransmit_failure(struct tipc_link *l, struct tipc_link *r,

				    u16 from, int *rc)

				    int *rc)

{

	struct sk_buff *skb = skb_peek(&l->transmq);

	struct tipc_msg *hdr;



	if (!skb)

		return false;



	if (!TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_cnt)

		return false;



	if (!time_after(jiffies, TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_stamp +

			msecs_to_jiffies(r->tolerance)))

		return false;



	hdr = buf_msg(skb);

	if (link_is_bc_sndlink(l) && !less(r->acked, msg_seqno(hdr)))

		return false;



	/* Detect repeated retransmit failures on same packet */

	if (r->prev_from != from) {

		r->prev_from = from;

		r->stale_limit = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(r->tolerance);

	} else if (time_after(jiffies, r->stale_limit)) {

	pr_warn("Retransmission failure on link <%s>\n", l->name);

	link_print(l, "State of link ");

	pr_info("Failed msg: usr %u, typ %u, len %u, err %u\n",

			msg_user(hdr), msg_type(hdr), msg_size(hdr),

			msg_errcode(hdr));

		pr_info("sqno %u, prev: %x, src: %x\n",

			msg_seqno(hdr), msg_prevnode(hdr), msg_orignode(hdr));

		msg_user(hdr), msg_type(hdr), msg_size(hdr), msg_errcode(hdr));

	pr_info("sqno %u, prev: %x, dest: %x\n",

		msg_seqno(hdr), msg_prevnode(hdr), msg_destnode(hdr));

	pr_info("retr_stamp %d, retr_cnt %d\n",

		jiffies_to_msecs(TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_stamp),

		TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_cnt);



	trace_tipc_list_dump(&l->transmq, true, "retrans failure!");

	trace_tipc_link_dump(l, TIPC_DUMP_NONE, "retrans failure!");

	trace_tipc_link_dump(r, TIPC_DUMP_NONE, "retrans failure!");



		if (link_is_bc_sndlink(l))

	if (link_is_bc_sndlink(l)) {

		r->state = LINK_RESET;

		*rc = TIPC_LINK_DOWN_EVT;



	} else {

		*rc = tipc_link_fsm_evt(l, LINK_FAILURE_EVT);

		return true;

	}



	return false;

	return true;

}



/* tipc_link_bc_retrans() - retransmit zero or more packets
@@ -1110,7 +1112,7 @@ static int tipc_link_bc_retrans(struct tipc_link *l, struct tipc_link *r, 


	trace_tipc_link_retrans(r, from, to, &l->transmq);



	if (link_retransmit_failure(l, r, from, &rc))

	if (link_retransmit_failure(l, r, &rc))

		return rc;



	skb_queue_walk(&l->transmq, skb) {
@@ -1119,11 +1121,10 @@ static int tipc_link_bc_retrans(struct tipc_link *l, struct tipc_link *r, 
			continue;

		if (more(msg_seqno(hdr), to))

			break;

		if (link_is_bc_sndlink(l)) {



		if (time_before(jiffies, TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr))

			continue;

		TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr = TIPC_BC_RETR_LIM;

		}

		_skb = __pskb_copy(skb, LL_MAX_HEADER + MIN_H_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);

		if (!_skb)

			return 0;
@@ -1133,6 +1134,10 @@ static int tipc_link_bc_retrans(struct tipc_link *l, struct tipc_link *r, 
		_skb->priority = TC_PRIO_CONTROL;

		__skb_queue_tail(xmitq, _skb);

		l->stats.retransmitted++;



		/* Increase actual retrans counter & mark first time */

		if (!TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_cnt++)

			TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_stamp = jiffies;

	}

	return 0;

}
@@ -1357,12 +1362,10 @@ static int tipc_link_advance_transmq(struct tipc_link *l, u16 acked, u16 gap, 
	struct tipc_msg *hdr;

	u16 bc_ack = l->bc_rcvlink->rcv_nxt - 1;

	u16 ack = l->rcv_nxt - 1;

	bool passed = false;

	u16 seqno, n = 0;

	int rc = 0;



	if (gap && link_retransmit_failure(l, l, acked + 1, &rc))

		return rc;



	skb_queue_walk_safe(&l->transmq, skb, tmp) {

		seqno = buf_seqno(skb);
@@ -1372,12 +1375,17 @@ next_gap_ack: 
			__skb_unlink(skb, &l->transmq);

			kfree_skb(skb);

		} else if (less_eq(seqno, acked + gap)) {

			/* retransmit skb */

			/* First, check if repeated retrans failures occurs? */

			if (!passed && link_retransmit_failure(l, l, &rc))

				return rc;

			passed = true;



			/* retransmit skb if unrestricted*/

			if (time_before(jiffies, TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr))

				continue;

			TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr = TIPC_UC_RETR_TIME;



			_skb = __pskb_copy(skb, MIN_H_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);

			_skb = __pskb_copy(skb, LL_MAX_HEADER + MIN_H_SIZE,

					   GFP_ATOMIC);

			if (!_skb)

				continue;

			hdr = buf_msg(_skb);
@@ -1386,6 +1394,10 @@ next_gap_ack: 
			_skb->priority = TC_PRIO_CONTROL;

			__skb_queue_tail(xmitq, _skb);

			l->stats.retransmitted++;



			/* Increase actual retrans counter & mark first time */

			if (!TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_cnt++)

				TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->retr_stamp = jiffies;

		} else {

			/* retry with Gap ACK blocks if any */

			if (!ga || n >= ga->gack_cnt)
@@ -2577,7 +2589,7 @@ int tipc_link_dump(struct tipc_link *l, u16 dqueues, char *buf) 
	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %x", l->peer_caps);

	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %u", l->silent_intv_cnt);

	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %u", l->rst_cnt);

	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %u", l->prev_from);

	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %u", 0);

	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %u", 0);

	i += scnprintf(buf + i, sz - i, " %u", l->acked);

net/tipc/msg.h

+5 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -102,13 +102,15 @@ struct plist; 
#define TIPC_MEDIA_INFO_OFFSET	5



struct tipc_skb_cb {

	u32 bytes_read;

	u32 orig_member;

	struct sk_buff *tail;

	unsigned long nxt_retr;

	bool validated;

	unsigned long retr_stamp;

	u32 bytes_read;

	u32 orig_member;

	u16 chain_imp;

	u16 ackers;

	u16 retr_cnt;

	bool validated;

};



#define TIPC_SKB_CB(__skb) ((struct tipc_skb_cb *)&((__skb)->cb[0]))

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