From: "xin.guo" If the new coming segment covers more than one skbs in the ofo queue, and which seq is equal to rcv_nxt, then the sequence range that is duplicated will be sent as DUP SACK, the detail as below, in step6, the {501,2001} range is clearly including too much DUP SACK range, in violation of RFC 2883 rules. 1. client > server: Flags [.], seq 501:1001, ack 1325288529, win 20000, length 500 2. server > client: Flags [.], ack 1, [nop,nop,sack 1 {501:1001}], length 0 3. client > server: Flags [.], seq 1501:2001, ack 1325288529, win 20000, length 500 4. server > client: Flags [.], ack 1, [nop,nop,sack 2 {1501:2001} {501:1001}], length 0 5. client > server: Flags [.], seq 1:2001, ack 1325288529, win 20000, length 2000 6. server > client: Flags [.], ack 2001, [nop,nop,sack 1 {501:2001}], length 0 After this fix, the final ACK is as below: 6. server > client: Flags [.], ack 2001, options [nop,nop,sack 1 {501:1001}], length 0 [edumazet] added a new packetdrill test in the following patch. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: xin.guo Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 19a1542883dfba7211e08dcb44c82b4564d76f04..79e3bfb0108fd4e21de2295e879fbd521daa62f9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -4845,8 +4845,9 @@ static void tcp_ofo_queue(struct sock *sk) if (before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, dsack_high)) { __u32 dsack = dsack_high; + if (before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, dsack_high)) - dsack_high = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq; + dsack = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq; tcp_dsack_extend(sk, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, dsack); } p = rb_next(p); -- 2.50.0.727.gbf7dc18ff4-goog