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Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:23:16 -0800
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: fix an infinite loop in tcp_slow_start()
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Since commit 9dc274151a548 (tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start()),
a nul snd_cwnd triggers an infinite loop in tcp_slow_start()
Avoid this infinite loop and log a one time error for further
analysis. FRTO code is suspected to cause this bug.
Reported-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index 291f2ed..cdf2e70 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ void tcp_slow_start(struct tcp_sock *tp)
{
int cnt; /* increase in packets */
unsigned int delta = 0;
+ u32 snd_cwnd = tp->snd_cwnd;
+
+ if (unlikely(!snd_cwnd)) {
+ pr_err_once("snd_cwnd is nul, please report this bug.\n");
+ snd_cwnd = 1U;
+ }
/* RFC3465: ABC Slow start
* Increase only after a full MSS of bytes is acked
@@ -324,7 +330,7 @@ void tcp_slow_start(struct tcp_sock *tp)
if (sysctl_tcp_max_ssthresh > 0 && tp->snd_cwnd > sysctl_tcp_max_ssthresh)
cnt = sysctl_tcp_max_ssthresh >> 1; /* limited slow start */
else
- cnt = tp->snd_cwnd; /* exponential increase */
+ cnt = snd_cwnd; /* exponential increase */
/* RFC3465: ABC
* We MAY increase by 2 if discovered delayed ack
@@ -334,11 +340,11 @@ void tcp_slow_start(struct tcp_sock *tp)
tp->bytes_acked = 0;
tp->snd_cwnd_cnt += cnt;
- while (tp->snd_cwnd_cnt >= tp->snd_cwnd) {
- tp->snd_cwnd_cnt -= tp->snd_cwnd;
+ while (tp->snd_cwnd_cnt >= snd_cwnd) {
+ tp->snd_cwnd_cnt -= snd_cwnd;
delta++;
}
- tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd + delta, tp->snd_cwnd_clamp);
+ tp->snd_cwnd = min(snd_cwnd + delta, tp->snd_cwnd_clamp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_slow_start);
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