netdev - [PATCH 1/1] [SCTP]: Force update of the rto when processing HB-ACK

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:32:51 -0800
From:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] [SCTP]: Force update of the rto when processing HB-ACK

[SCTP]: Force update of the rto when processing HB-ACK

When processing a HEARTBEAT-ACK it's possible that the transport rto
timers will not be updated because a prior T3-RTX processing would
have cleared the rto_pending flag on the transport.  However, if
we received a valid HEARTBEAT-ACK, we want to force update the
rto variables, so re-set the rto_pending flag before calling
sctp_transport_update_rto().

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
---
 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
index 8bd3097..25c0277 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
@@ -621,7 +621,13 @@ static void sctp_cmd_transport_on(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
 	/* The receiver of the HEARTBEAT ACK should also perform an
 	 * RTT measurement for that destination transport address
 	 * using the time value carried in the HEARTBEAT ACK chunk.
+	 * If the transport's rto_pending variable has been cleared,
+	 * it was most likely due to a retransmit.  However, we want
+	 * to re-enable it to properly update the rto.
 	 */
+	if (t->rto_pending == 0)
+		t->rto_pending = 1;
+
 	hbinfo = (sctp_sender_hb_info_t *) chunk->skb->data;
 	sctp_transport_update_rto(t, (jiffies - hbinfo->sent_at));



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