Patch "tcp: refresh skb timestamp at retransmit time" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tcp: refresh skb timestamp at retransmit time

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
tcp-refresh-skb-timestamp-at-retransmit-time.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 20:55:16 -0700
Subject: tcp: refresh skb timestamp at retransmit time

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 10a81980fc47e64ffac26a073139813d3f697b64 ]

In the very unlikely case __tcp_retransmit_skb() can not use the cloning done in tcp_transmit_skb(), we need to refresh skb_mstamp before doing the copy and transmit, otherwise TCP TS val will be an exact copy of original transmit.

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -2625,8 +2625,10 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk
 	 */
 	if (unlikely((NET_IP_ALIGN && ((unsigned long)skb->data & 3)) ||
 		     skb_headroom(skb) >= 0xFFFF)) {
-		struct sk_buff *nskb = __pskb_copy(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER,
-						   GFP_ATOMIC);
+		struct sk_buff *nskb;
+
+		skb_mstamp_get(&skb->skb_mstamp);
+		nskb = __pskb_copy(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		err = nskb ? tcp_transmit_skb(sk, nskb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) :
 			     -ENOBUFS;
 	} else {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/tcp-refresh-skb-timestamp-at-retransmit-time.patch queue-4.5/netem-segment-gso-packets-on-enqueue.patch queue-4.5/net-mlx4_en-fix-spurious-timestamping-callbacks.patch queue-4.5/net-sched-do-not-requeue-a-null-skb.patch queue-4.5/soreuseport-fix-ordering-for-mixed-v4-v6-sockets.patch