Commit 241b2719 authored by Sowmini Varadhan's avatar Sowmini Varadhan Committed by David S. Miller

RDS-TCP: Reset tcp callbacks if re-using an outgoing socket in rds_tcp_accept_one()

Consider the following "duelling syn" sequence between two peers A and B:
        	A		B
        	SYN1     -->
        	    	<--	SYN2
        	SYN2ACK  -->

Note that the SYN/ACK has already been sent out by TCP before
rds_tcp_accept_one() gets invoked as part of callbacks.

If the inet_addr(A) is numerically less than inet_addr(B),
the arbitration scheme in rds_tcp_accept_one() will prefer the
TCP connection triggered by SYN1, and will send a CLOSE for the
SYN2 (just after the SYN2ACK was sent).

Since B also follows the same arbitration scheme, it will send the SYN-ACK
for SYN1 that will set up a healthy ESTABLISHED connection on both sides.
B will also get a  CLOSE for SYN2, which should result in the cleanup
of the TCP state machine for SYN2, but it should not trigger any
stale RDS-TCP callbacks (such as ->writespace, ->state_change etc),
that would disrupt the progress of the SYN2 based RDS-TCP  connection.

Thus the arbitration scheme in rds_tcp_accept_one() should restore
rds_tcp callbacks for the winner before setting them up for the
new accept socket, and also make sure that conn->c_outgoing
is set to 0 so that we do not trigger any reconnect attempts on the
passive side of the tcp socket in the future, in conformance with
commit c82ac7e6 ("net/rds: RDS-TCP: only initiate reconnect attempt
on outgoing TCP socket.")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 48679800
......@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct socket *sock)
new_sock = NULL;
ret = 0;
goto out;
} else if (rs_tcp->t_sock) {
rds_tcp_restore_callbacks(rs_tcp->t_sock, rs_tcp);
conn->c_outgoing = 0;
}
rds_conn_transition(conn, RDS_CONN_DOWN, RDS_CONN_CONNECTING);
......
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