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author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2016-10-26 09:27:57 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-10-29 15:09:21 -0400 |
commit | 5ea8ea2cb7f1d0db15762c9b0bb9e7330425a071 (patch) | |
tree | 46fb718cf8da30f0cbb023e19081921cac3832a0 /mm | |
parent | 58effd7168e9b74252650a008b5229c7cf224c7b (diff) |
tcp/dccp: drop SYN packets if accept queue is full
Per listen(fd, backlog) rules, there is really no point accepting a SYN,
sending a SYNACK, and dropping the following ACK packet if accept queue
is full, because application is not draining accept queue fast enough.
This behavior is fooling TCP clients that believe they established a
flow, while there is nothing at server side. They might then send about
10 MSS (if using IW10) that will be dropped anyway while server is under
stress.
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>
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