From 15d99e02babae8bc20b836917ace07d93e318149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rick Jones Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:40:29 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 518e568b53f3..9d79546d384e 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 @@ void tcp_select_initial_window(int __space, __u32 mss, 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 @@ static u16 tcp_select_window(struct sock *sk) /* 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)); -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522