Small bug with TCP zero windows
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 3 20:29:28 UTC 2009
Several years ago Dillon added a feature to TCP that casued soreceive() to
send an ACK right away if data was drained from a TCP socket that had
previously advertised a zero-sized window. The current code requires the
receive window to be exactly zero for this to kick in. If window scaling is
enabled and the window is smaller than the scale, then the effective window
that is advertised is zero. However, in that case the zero-sized window
handling is not enabled because the window is not exactly zero. The patch
below changes the code to check the raw window value against zero. Arguably
it could check 'th_win' directly instead if folks would prefer that.
Index: tcp_output.c
===================================================================
--- tcp_output.c (revision 198794)
+++ tcp_output.c (working copy)
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@
* to read more data than can be buffered prior to transmitting on
* the connection.
*/
- if (recwin == 0)
+ if (recwin >> tp->rcv_scale == 0)
tp->t_flags |= TF_RXWIN0SENT;
else
tp->t_flags &= ~TF_RXWIN0SENT;
--
John Baldwin
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