tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
Fix to a problem observed when losing a FIN segment that does not
contain data. In such situations, TLP is unable to recover from
*any* tail loss and instead adds at least PTO ms to the
retransmission process, i.e., RTO = RTO + PTO.
Signed-off-by: Per Hurtig <per.hurtig@kau.se>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index ad7549f..819bf0c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2131,9 +2131,7 @@
if (WARN_ON(!skb || !tcp_skb_pcount(skb)))
goto rearm_timer;
- /* Probe with zero data doesn't trigger fast recovery. */
- if (skb->len > 0)
- err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb);
+ err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb);
/* Record snd_nxt for loss detection. */
if (likely(!err))