Sylvain Munault reported following info :
- TCP connection get "stuck" with data in send queue when doing
"large" transfers ( like typing 'ps ax' on a ssh connection )
- Only happens on path where the PMTU is lower than the MTU of
the interface
- Is not present right after boot, it only appears 10-20min after
boot or so. (and that's inside the _same_ TCP connection, it works
fine at first and then in the same ssh session, it'll get stuck)
- Definitely seems related to fragments somehow since I see a router
sending ICMP message saying fragmentation is needed.
- Exact same setup works fine with kernel 3.5.1
Problem happens when the 10 minutes (ip_rt_mtu_expires) expiration
period is over.
ip_rt_update_pmtu() calls dst_set_expires() to rearm a new expiration,
but dst_set_expires() does nothing because dst.expires is already set.
It seems we want to set the expires field to a new value, regardless
of prior one.
With help from Julian Anastasov.
Reported-by: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@whatever-company.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Tested-by: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@whatever-company.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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