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Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 0b9aefea86 tcp: minimize false-positives on TCP/GRO check
Markus Trippelsdorf reported that after commit dcb17d22e1 ("tcp: warn
on bogus MSS and try to amend it") the kernel started logging the
warning for a NIC driver that doesn't even support GRO.

It was diagnosed that it was possibly caused on connections that were
using TCP Timestamps but some packets lacked the Timestamps option. As
we reduce rcv_mss when timestamps are used, the lack of them would cause
the packets to be bigger than expected, although this is a valid case.

As this warning is more as a hint, getting a clean-cut on the
threshold is probably not worth the execution time spent on it. This
patch thus alleviates the false-positives with 2 quick checks: by
accounting for the entire TCP option space and also checking against the
interface MTU if it's available.

These changes, specially the MTU one, might mask some real positives,
though if they are really happening, it's possible that sooner or later
it will be triggered anyway.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-03 18:43:41 -07:00
arch powerpc fixes for 4.11 #5 2017-03-19 18:49:28 -07:00
block blk-mq-sched: don't run the queue async from blk_mq_try_issue_directly() 2017-03-14 11:51:59 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
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drivers net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: wake tx queues on ndo_tx_timeout 2017-04-02 19:42:44 -07:00
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kernel bpf, verifier: fix rejection of unaligned access checks for map_value_adj 2017-04-01 12:36:37 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
net tcp: minimize false-positives on TCP/GRO check 2017-04-03 18:43:41 -07:00
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Linux kernel
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