[PATCH v2] ratp: Fix retransmission for header-only packets

Jules Maselbas jmaselbas at kalray.eu
Wed Jan 25 07:39:59 PST 2023


Using sendmsg_current to detect if a packet needs to be retransmitted is
brittle as only packets containing data will ever be considered, packets
only containing a header (without data) were never being retransmitted.

The sendbuf_len is used to determine if a packets is being send or not,
a non-zero length means that a packets is still being in the "try-send"
state, the length is not set to zero when a valid SN is received.

Retransmission issue can be easily reproduced with a physical UART (not
cdc_acm over USB), by running the following command:

    while ratp-barebox-cli -b 115200 -t /dev/ttyACMx -p; do :; done

Alternatively, it is possible to modify lib/ratp.c to force packets to
be sent by the retransmission logic with the following change:

    @ int ratp_send_pkt(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt, int length)
                    ri->sendbuf_len = length;
    -               ri->retransmission_timer_start = get_time_ns();
    +               ri->retransmission_timer_start = get_time_ns() - ri->rto * MSECOND/2;
                    ri->retransmission_count = 0;
            }
    -       return ri->ratp->send(ri->ratp, pkt, length);
    +       return 0;

Signed-off-by: Jules Maselbas <jmaselbas at kalray.eu>
---
changes in v2: reset sendbuf_len to zero where appropriated (in each behavior)

lib/ratp.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ratp.c b/lib/ratp.c
index ce30223bac..b582e4e779 100644
--- a/lib/ratp.c
+++ b/lib/ratp.c
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_c2(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 		control = RATP_CONTROL_RST | RATP_CONTROL_ACK |
 			ratp_set_sn(ratp_an(hdr)) | ratp_set_next_an(ratp_sn(hdr));
 		ratp_send_hdr(ri, control);
-
+		ri->sendbuf_len = 0;
 		ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_CLOSED);
 		return 1;
 	}
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_d1(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 	ri->status = -ECONNREFUSED;
 
 	pr_debug("Error: connection refused\n");
-
+	ri->sendbuf_len = 0;
 	ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_CLOSED);
 
 	return 1;
@@ -812,6 +812,8 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_d2(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 	ri->status = -ECONNRESET;
 
 	pr_debug("connection reset\n");
+	ri->sendbuf_len = 0;
+	ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_CLOSED);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -879,7 +881,7 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_e(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 	ratp_send_hdr(ri, control);
 
 	pr_debug("connection reset\n");
-
+	ri->sendbuf_len = 0;
 	ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_CLOSED);
 
 	return 1;
@@ -924,8 +926,10 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_f1(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 	if (!(hdr->control & RATP_CONTROL_ACK))
 		return 1;
 
-	if (ratp_an_expected(ri, hdr))
+	if (ratp_an_expected(ri, hdr)) {
+		ri->sendbuf_len = 0; /* packet succesfully received */
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	control = RATP_CONTROL_RST | ratp_set_sn(ratp_an(hdr));
 	ratp_send_hdr(ri, control);
@@ -971,6 +975,8 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_f2(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 		if (ri->sendmsg_current)
 			ratp_msg_done(ri, ri->sendmsg_current, 0);
 		ri->sendmsg_current = NULL;
+		ri->sendbuf_len = 0; /* packet succesfully received */
+		pr_debug("Data succesfully sent 0\n");
 		return 0;
 	} else {
 		pr_vdebug("%s: an not expected\n", __func__);
@@ -1175,6 +1181,7 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_h3(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 		ratp_send_hdr(ri, control);
 		ri->status = -ECONNRESET;
 		pr_debug("Error: Connection reset\n");
+		ri->sendbuf_len = 0;
 		ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_CLOSED);
 		return 1;
 	}
@@ -1217,8 +1224,10 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_h4(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 
 	pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
 
-	if (ratp_an_expected(ri, hdr))
+	if (ratp_an_expected(ri, hdr)) {
+		ri->sendbuf_len = 0; /* packet succesfully received */
 		ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_CLOSED);
+	}
 
 	return 1;
 }
@@ -1244,6 +1253,7 @@ static int ratp_behaviour_h5(struct ratp_internal *ri, void *pkt)
 	pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
 
 	if (ratp_an_expected(ri, hdr)) {
+		ri->sendbuf_len = 0; /* packet succesfully received */
 		ratp_state_change(ri, RATP_STATE_TIME_WAIT);
 		ratp_start_time_wait_timer(ri);
 	}
@@ -1580,9 +1590,8 @@ int ratp_poll(struct ratp *ratp)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (ri->sendmsg_current && is_timeout(ri->retransmission_timer_start,
+	if (ri->sendbuf_len && is_timeout(ri->retransmission_timer_start,
 	    ri->rto * MSECOND)) {
-
 		ri->retransmission_count++;
 		if (ri->retransmission_count == ri->max_retransmission) {
 			ri->status = ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
@@ -1601,7 +1610,7 @@ int ratp_poll(struct ratp *ratp)
 			goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (!ri->sendmsg_current && !list_empty(&ri->sendmsg))
+	if (ri->sendbuf_len == 0 && !list_empty(&ri->sendmsg))
 		ratp_send_next_data(ri);
 
 	ret = 0;
-- 
2.17.1




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