linux-kernel - [PATCH 67/81] tcp: frto should not set snd

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:49:30 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 67/81] tcp: frto should not set snd_cwnd to 0

3.5.7.6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

commit 2e5f421211ff76c17130b4597bc06df4eeead24f upstream.

Commit 9dc274151a548 (tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start())
uncovered a bug in FRTO code :
tcp_process_frto() is setting snd_cwnd to 0 if the number
of in flight packets is 0.

As Neal pointed out, if no packet is in flight we lost our
chance to disambiguate whether a loss timeout was spurious.

We should assume it was a proper loss.

Reported-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 19c430c..6affa92 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3695,7 +3695,8 @@ static bool tcp_process_frto(struct sock *sk, int flag)
 	    ((tp->frto_counter >= 2) && (flag & FLAG_RETRANS_DATA_ACKED)))
 		tp->undo_marker = 0;
 
-	if (!before(tp->snd_una, tp->frto_highmark)) {
+	if (!before(tp->snd_una, tp->frto_highmark) ||
+	    !tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)) {
 		tcp_enter_frto_loss(sk, (tp->frto_counter == 1 ? 2 : 3), flag);
 		return true;
 	}
-- 
1.7.9.5

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