linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.8 067/121] tcp_cubic: fix the range of delayed

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Message-Id: <1403021899-16708-40-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:17:25 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Liu Yu <allanyuliu@...cent.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.8 067/121] tcp_cubic: fix the range of delayed_ack

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

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From: Liu Yu <allanyuliu@...cent.com>

[ Upstream commit 0cda345d1b2201dd15591b163e3c92bad5191745 ]

commit b9f47a3aaeab (tcp_cubic: limit delayed_ack ratio to prevent
divide error) try to prevent divide error, but there is still a little
chance that delayed_ack can reach zero. In case the param cnt get
negative value, then ratio+cnt would overflow and may happen to be zero.
As a result, min(ratio, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT) will calculate to be zero.

In some old kernels, such as 2.6.32, there is a bug that would
pass negative param, which then ultimately leads to this divide error.

commit 5b35e1e6e9c (tcp: fix tcp_trim_head() to adjust segment count
with skb MSS) fixed the negative param issue. However,
it's safe that we fix the range of delayed_ack as well,
to make sure we do not hit a divide by zero.

CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <allanyuliu@...cent.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
index b6ae92a..894b7ce 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static void bictcp_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt_us)
 		ratio -= ca->delayed_ack >> ACK_RATIO_SHIFT;
 		ratio += cnt;

-		ca->delayed_ack = min(ratio, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT);
+		ca->delayed_ack = clamp(ratio, 1U, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT);
 	}

 	/* Some calls are for duplicates without timetamps */
-- 
1.9.1

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