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Commit b1ed4c4f authored by Andrey Vagin's avatar Andrey Vagin Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: add an ability to dump and restore window parameters



We found that sometimes a restored tcp socket doesn't work.

A reason of this bug is incorrect window parameters and in this case
tcp_acceptable_seq() returns tcp_wnd_end(tp) instead of tp->snd_nxt. The
other side drops packets with this seq, because seq is less than
tp->rcv_nxt ( tcp_sequence() ).

Data from a send queue is sent only if there is enough space in a
window, so when we restore unacked data, we need to expand a window to
fit this data.

This was in a first version of this patch:
"tcp: extend window to fit all restored unacked data in a send queue"

Then Alexey recommended me to restore window parameters instead of
adjusted them according with data in a sent queue. This sounds resonable.

rcv_wnd has to be restored, because it was reported to another side
and the offered window is never shrunk.
One of reasons why we need to restore snd_wnd was described above.

Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
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: default avatarAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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