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Tilmans, Olivier (Nokia - BE/Antwerp) f6fee16dbb tcp: Accept ECT on SYN in the presence of RFC8311
Linux currently disable ECN for incoming connections when the SYN
requests ECN and the IP header has ECT(0)/ECT(1) set, as some
networks were reportedly mangling the ToS byte, hence could later
trigger false congestion notifications.

RFC8311 §4.3 relaxes RFC3168's requirements such that ECT can be set
one TCP control packets (including SYNs). The main benefit of this
is the decreased probability of losing a SYN in a congested
ECN-capable network (i.e., it avoids the initial 1s timeout).
Additionally, this allows the development of newer TCP extensions,
such as AccECN.

This patch relaxes the previous check, by enabling ECN on incoming
connections using SYN+ECT if at least one bit of the reserved flags
of the TCP header is set. Such bit would indicate that the sender of
the SYN is using a newer TCP feature than what the host implements,
such as AccECN, and is thus implementing RFC8311. This enables
end-hosts not supporting such extensions to still negociate ECN, and
to have some of the benefits of using ECN on control packets.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Suggested-by: Bob Briscoe <research@bobbriscoe.net>
Cc: Koen De Schepper <koen.de_schepper@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-04-04 17:43:48 -07:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-03-27 12:22:57 -07:00
block io_uring-20190323 2019-03-23 10:25:12 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo 2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
Documentation This feature/cleanup patchset includes the following patches: 2019-03-28 09:52:42 -07:00
drivers mlxsw: switch_ib: Pass valid HW id down to mlxsw_core_port_init() 2019-04-04 17:42:36 -07:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 5.1 2019-03-26 14:25:48 -07:00
include net: devlink: introduce devlink_compat_switch_id_get() helper 2019-04-04 17:42:36 -07:00
init init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Add GCC runtime library exception text 2019-01-16 14:54:15 -07:00
mm device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
net tcp: Accept ECT on SYN in the presence of RFC8311 2019-04-04 17:43:48 -07:00
samples samples: bpf: add xdp_sample_pkts to .gitignore 2019-03-21 19:35:36 -07:00
scripts kconfig: remove stale lxdialog/.gitignore 2019-03-17 15:47:02 +09:00
security selinux: fix NULL dereference in policydb_destroy() 2019-03-18 12:19:48 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 5.1-rc2 2019-03-22 14:04:38 -07:00
tools selftests: tc-testing: Add pedit tests 2019-03-29 11:15:20 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt ARM: some cleanups, direct physical timer assignment, cache sanitization 2019-03-15 15:00:28 -07:00
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CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Fix mellanox Innova IPsec 2019-03-29 12:27:57 -07:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.