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    tcp: Repair socket queues · c0e88ff0
    Pavel Emelyanov authored
    Reading queues under repair mode is done with recvmsg call.
    The queue-under-repair set by TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE option is used
    to determine which queue should be read. Thus both send and
    receive queue can be read with this.
    
    Caller must pass the MSG_PEEK flag.
    
    Writing to queues is done with sendmsg call and yet again --
    the repair-queue option can be used to push data into the
    receive queue.
    
    When putting an skb into receive queue a zero tcp header is
    appented to its head to address the tcp_hdr(skb)->syn and
    the ->fin checks by the (after repair) tcp_recvmsg. These
    flags flags are both set to zero and that's why.
    
    The fin cannot be met in the queue while reading the source
    socket, since the repair only works for closed/established
    sockets and queueing fin packet always changes its state.
    
    The syn in the queue denotes that the respective skb's seq
    is "off-by-one" as compared to the actual payload lenght. Thus,
    at the rcv queue refill we can just drop this flag and set the
    skb's sequences to precice values.
    
    When the repair mode is turned off, the write queue seqs are
    updated so that the whole queue is considered to be 'already sent,
    waiting for ACKs' (write_seq = snd_nxt <= snd_una). From the
    protocol POV the send queue looks like it was sent, but the data
    between the write_seq and snd_nxt is lost in the network.
    
    This helps to avoid another sockoption for setting the snd_nxt
    sequence. Leaving the whole queue in a 'not yet sent' state (as
    it will be after sendmsg-s) will not allow to receive any acks
    from the peer since the ack_seq will be after the snd_nxt. Thus
    even the ack for the window probe will be dropped and the
    connection will be 'locked' with the zero peer window.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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