[TCP]: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscale
Back in the dark ages, we had to be conservative and only allow 15-bit
window fields if the window scale option was not negotiated. Some
ancient stacks used a signed 16-bit quantity for the window field of
the TCP header and would get confused.
Those days are long gone, so we can use the full 16-bits by default
now.
There is a sysctl added so that we can still interact with such old
stacks
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.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 518e568..9d79546 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
/* People can turn this off for buggy TCP's found in printers etc. */
int sysctl_tcp_retrans_collapse = 1;
+/* People can turn this on to work with those rare, broken TCPs that
+ * interpret the window field as a signed quantity.
+ */
+int sysctl_tcp_workaround_signed_windows = 0;
+
/* This limits the percentage of the congestion window which we
* will allow a single TSO frame to consume. Building TSO frames
* which are too large can cause TCP streams to be bursty.
@@ -177,12 +182,18 @@
space = (space / mss) * mss;
/* NOTE: offering an initial window larger than 32767
- * will break some buggy TCP stacks. We try to be nice.
- * If we are not window scaling, then this truncates
- * our initial window offering to 32k. There should also
- * be a sysctl option to stop being nice.
+ * will break some buggy TCP stacks. If the admin tells us
+ * it is likely we could be speaking with such a buggy stack
+ * we will truncate our initial window offering to 32K-1
+ * unless the remote has sent us a window scaling option,
+ * which we interpret as a sign the remote TCP is not
+ * misinterpreting the window field as a signed quantity.
*/
- (*rcv_wnd) = min(space, MAX_TCP_WINDOW);
+ if (sysctl_tcp_workaround_signed_windows)
+ (*rcv_wnd) = min(space, MAX_TCP_WINDOW);
+ else
+ (*rcv_wnd) = space;
+
(*rcv_wscale) = 0;
if (wscale_ok) {
/* Set window scaling on max possible window
@@ -241,7 +252,7 @@
/* Make sure we do not exceed the maximum possible
* scaled window.
*/
- if (!tp->rx_opt.rcv_wscale)
+ if (!tp->rx_opt.rcv_wscale && sysctl_tcp_workaround_signed_windows)
new_win = min(new_win, MAX_TCP_WINDOW);
else
new_win = min(new_win, (65535U << tp->rx_opt.rcv_wscale));