tcp: accecn: AccECN negotiation

Accurate ECN negotiation parts based on the specification:
  https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt

Accurate ECN is negotiated using ECE, CWR and AE flags in the
TCP header. TCP falls back into using RFC3168 ECN if one of the
ends supports only RFC3168-style ECN.

The AccECN negotiation includes reflecting IP ECN field value
seen in SYN and SYNACK back using the same bits as negotiation
to allow responding to SYN CE marks and to detect ECN field
mangling. CE marks should not occur currently because SYN=1
segments are sent with Non-ECT in IP ECN field (but proposal
exists to remove this restriction).

Reflecting SYN IP ECN field in SYNACK is relatively simple.
Reflecting SYNACK IP ECN field in the final/third ACK of
the handshake is more challenging. Linux TCP code is not well
prepared for using the final/third ACK a signalling channel
which makes things somewhat complicated here.

tcp_ecn sysctl can be used to select the highest ECN variant
(Accurate ECN, ECN, No ECN) that is attemped to be negotiated and
requested for incoming connection and outgoing connection:
TCP_ECN_IN_NOECN_OUT_NOECN, TCP_ECN_IN_ECN_OUT_ECN,
TCP_ECN_IN_ECN_OUT_NOECN, TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_ACCECN,
TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_ECN, and TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_NOECN.

After this patch, the size of tcp_request_sock remains unchanged
and no new holes are added. Below are the pahole outcomes before
and after this patch:

[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_request_sock {
    [...]
    u32                        rcv_nxt;              /*   352     4 */
    u8                         syn_tos;              /*   356     1 */

    /* size: 360, cachelines: 6, members: 16 */
}

[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_request_sock {
    [...]
    u32                        rcv_nxt;              /*   352     4 */
    u8                         syn_tos;              /*   356     1 */
    bool                       accecn_ok;            /*   357     1 */
    u8                         syn_ect_snt:2;        /*   358: 0  1 */
    u8                         syn_ect_rcv:2;        /*   358: 2  1 */
    u8                         accecn_fail_mode:4;   /*   358: 4  1 */

    /* size: 360, cachelines: 6, members: 20 */
}

After this patch, the size of tcp_sock remains unchanged and no new
holes are added. Also, 4 bits of the existing 2-byte hole are exploited.
Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch:

[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
    [...]
    u8                         dup_ack_counter:2;    /*  2761: 0  1 */
    u8                         tlp_retrans:1;        /*  2761: 2  1 */
    u8                         unused:5;             /*  2761: 3  1 */
    u8                         thin_lto:1;           /*  2762: 0  1 */
    u8                         fastopen_connect:1;   /*  2762: 1  1 */
    u8                         fastopen_no_cookie:1; /*  2762: 2  1 */
    u8                         fastopen_client_fail:2; /*  2762: 3  1 */
    u8                         frto:1;               /*  2762: 5  1 */
    /* XXX 2 bits hole, try to pack */

    [...]
    u8                         keepalive_probes;     /*  2765     1 */
    /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */

    [...]
    /* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 164 */
}

[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
    [...]
    u8                         dup_ack_counter:2;    /*  2761: 0  1 */
    u8                         tlp_retrans:1;        /*  2761: 2  1 */
    u8                         syn_ect_snt:2;        /*  2761: 3  1 */
    u8                         syn_ect_rcv:2;        /*  2761: 5  1 */
    u8                         thin_lto:1;           /*  2761: 7  1 */
    u8                         fastopen_connect:1;   /*  2762: 0  1 */
    u8                         fastopen_no_cookie:1; /*  2762: 1  1 */
    u8                         fastopen_client_fail:2; /*  2762: 2  1 */
    u8                         frto:1;               /*  2762: 4  1 */
    /* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */

    [...]
    u8                         keepalive_probes;     /*  2765     1 */
    u8                         accecn_fail_mode:4;   /*  2766: 0  1 */
    /* XXX 4 bits hole, try to pack */
    /* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */

    [...]
    /* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 166 */
}

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-3-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index a3a6d3e91d84..deb9b085a8a2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -332,8 +332,9 @@ static void tcp_ecn_send(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return;
 
 	if (tcp_ecn_mode_accecn(tp)) {
-		INET_ECN_xmit(sk);
-		tcp_accecn_set_ace(th, tp);
+		if (!tcp_accecn_ace_fail_recv(tp))
+			INET_ECN_xmit(sk);
+		tcp_accecn_set_ace(tp, skb, th);
 		skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type |= SKB_GSO_TCP_ACCECN;
 	} else {
 		/* Not-retransmitted data segment: set ECT and inject CWR. */
@@ -3356,7 +3357,10 @@ start:
 			tcp_retrans_try_collapse(sk, skb, avail_wnd);
 	}
 
-	/* RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1. ECN fallback */
+	/* RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1. ECN fallback
+	 * As AccECN uses the same SYN flags (+ AE), this check covers both
+	 * cases.
+	 */
 	if ((TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_SYN_ECN) == TCPHDR_SYN_ECN)
 		tcp_ecn_clear_syn(sk, skb);