tcp: accommodate sequence number to a peer's shrunk receive window caused by...

tcp: accommodate sequence number to a peer's shrunk receive window caused by precision loss in window scaling

Prevent sending out a left-shifted sequence number from a Linux sender in
response to a peer's shrunk receive-window caused by losing least significant
bits in window-scaling.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NCheng Cui <Cheng.Cui@netapp.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ static void tcp_event_new_data_sent(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
 		      tcp_skb_pcount(skb));
 }
 
-/* SND.NXT, if window was not shrunk.
+/* SND.NXT, if window was not shrunk or the amount of shrunk was less than one
+ * window scaling factor due to loss of precision.
  * If window has been shrunk, what should we make? It is not clear at all.
  * Using SND.UNA we will fail to open window, SND.NXT is out of window. :-(
  * Anything in between SND.UNA...SND.UNA+SND.WND also can be already
@@ -93,7 +94,9 @@ static inline __u32 tcp_acceptable_seq(const struct sock *sk)
 {
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 
-	if (!before(tcp_wnd_end(tp), tp->snd_nxt))
+	if (!before(tcp_wnd_end(tp), tp->snd_nxt) ||
+	    (tp->rx_opt.wscale_ok &&
+	     ((tp->snd_nxt - tcp_wnd_end(tp)) < (1 << tp->rx_opt.rcv_wscale))))
 		return tp->snd_nxt;
 	else
 		return tcp_wnd_end(tp);