tcp: Repair socket queues
Reading queues under repair mode is done with recvmsg call. The queue-under-repair set by TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE option is used to determine which queue should be read. Thus both send and receive queue can be read with this. Caller must pass the MSG_PEEK flag. Writing to queues is done with sendmsg call and yet again -- the repair-queue option can be used to push data into the receive queue. When putting an skb into receive queue a zero tcp header is appented to its head to address the tcp_hdr(skb)->syn and the ->fin checks by the (after repair) tcp_recvmsg. These flags flags are both set to zero and that's why. The fin cannot be met in the queue while reading the source socket, since the repair only works for closed/established sockets and queueing fin packet always changes its state. The syn in the queue denotes that the respective skb's seq is "off-by-one" as compared to the actual payload lenght. Thus, at the rcv queue refill we can just drop this flag and set the skb's sequences to precice values. When the repair mode is turned off, the write queue seqs are updated so that the whole queue is considered to be 'already sent, waiting for ACKs' (write_seq = snd_nxt <= snd_una). From the protocol POV the send queue looks like it was sent, but the data between the write_seq and snd_nxt is lost in the network. This helps to avoid another sockoption for setting the snd_nxt sequence. Leaving the whole queue in a 'not yet sent' state (as it will be after sendmsg-s) will not allow to receive any acks from the peer since the ack_seq will be after the snd_nxt. Thus even the ack for the window probe will be dropped and the connection will be 'locked' with the zero peer window. Signed-off-by:Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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