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tcp: finish SACK loss recovery on sudden lack of SACK blocks

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tcp: finish SACK loss recovery on sudden lack of SACK blocks

While a receiver should continue sending SACK blocks for the
duration of a SACK loss recovery, if for some reason the
TCP options no longer contain these SACK blocks, but we
already started maintaining the Scoreboard, keep on handling
incoming ACKs (without SACK) as belonging to the SACK recovery.

Reported by: thj
Reviewed by: tuexen, transport
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36046

(cherry picked from commit c21b7b55bea2cc2bf3b420c70a9018e703ed6f00)

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Provenance
rscheffAuthored on Aug 31 2022, 12:49 PM
Reviewer
transport
Differential Revision
D36046: Keep doing SACK loss recovery when ACKs suddenly lack SACK blocks
Parents
rG99c1c6755de4: Revert "tcp: finish SACK loss recovery on sudden lack of SACK blocks"
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