linux_dsm_epyc7002/net/rxrpc
David Howells c7e86acfce rxrpc: Fix lockup due to no error backoff after ack transmit error
If the network becomes (partially) unavailable, say by disabling IPv6, the
background ACK transmission routine can get itself into a tizzy by
proposing immediate ACK retransmission.  Since we're in the call event
processor, that happens immediately without returning to the workqueue
manager.

The condition should clear after a while when either the network comes back
or the call times out.

Fix this by:

 (1) When re-proposing an ACK on failed Tx, don't schedule it immediately.
     This will allow a certain amount of time to elapse before we try
     again.

 (2) Enforce a return to the workqueue manager after a certain number of
     iterations of the call processing loop.

 (3) Add a backoff delay that increases the delay on deferred ACKs by a
     jiffy per failed transmission to a limit of HZ.  The backoff delay is
     cleared on a successful return from kernel_sendmsg().

 (4) Cancel calls immediately if the opening sendmsg fails.  The layer
     above can arrange retransmission or rotate to another server.

Fixes: 248f219cb8 ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-02 23:59:26 -07:00
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af_rxrpc.c Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
ar-internal.h rxrpc: Fix lockup due to no error backoff after ack transmit error 2018-11-02 23:59:26 -07:00
call_accept.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-19 11:03:06 -07:00
call_event.c rxrpc: Fix lockup due to no error backoff after ack transmit error 2018-11-02 23:59:26 -07:00
call_object.c
conn_client.c
conn_event.c
conn_object.c
conn_service.c
input.c
insecure.c
Kconfig
key.c
local_event.c
local_object.c
Makefile
misc.c
net_ns.c
output.c rxrpc: Fix lockup due to no error backoff after ack transmit error 2018-11-02 23:59:26 -07:00
peer_event.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-19 11:03:06 -07:00
peer_object.c
proc.c
protocol.h
recvmsg.c
rxkad.c
security.c
sendmsg.c
skbuff.c
sysctl.c
utils.c