tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_request_sock
In the SYN_RECV state, where the TCP connection is represented by tcp_request_sock, we now rate-limit SYNACKs in response to a client's retransmitted SYNs: we do not send a SYNACK in response to client SYN if it has been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we last sent a SYNACK in response to a client's retransmitted SYN. This allows the vast majority of legitimate client connections to proceed unimpeded, even for the most aggressive platforms, iOS and MacOS, which actually retransmit SYNs 1-second intervals for several times in a row. They use SYN RTO timeouts following the progression: 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8,16,32. Reported-by: Avery Fay <avery@mixpanel.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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