On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 08:25:58AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:

Reported by somebody on IRC: if the server has considerable latency, it might happen that the client retries sending SYN segments for the same flow while we're still in a TAP_SYN_RCVD, non-ESTABLISHED state.

In that case, we should go with the blanket assumption that we need to reset the connection on any unexpected segment: RFC 9293 explicitly mentions this case in Figure 8: Recovery from Old Duplicate SYN, section 3.5. It doesn't make sense for us to set a specific sequence number, socket-side, but we should definitely wait and see.

Ignoring the duplicate SYN segment should also be compatible with section 3.10.7.3. SYN-SENT STATE, which mentions updating sequences socket-side (which we can't do anyway), but certainly not reset the connection.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

I haven't dug into the RFC to check this thoroughly, but it makes intuitive sense to me. Reviewed-by: David Gibson

--- tcp.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tcp.c b/tcp.c index 7787381..51ad692 100644 --- a/tcp.c +++ b/tcp.c @@ -1920,6 +1920,9 @@ int tcp_tap_handler(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif, sa_family_t af,

/* Establishing connection from tap */ if (conn->events & TAP_SYN_RCVD) { + if (th->syn && !th->ack && !th->fin) + return 1; /* SYN retry: ignore and keep waiting */ + if (!(conn->events & TAP_SYN_ACK_SENT)) goto reset;

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