linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 13/17] tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing

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Message-Id: <20150225020835.296227959@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:10:15 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 13/17] tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate

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

------------------

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

[ Upstream commit 811230cd853d62f09ed0addd0ce9a1b9b0e13fb5 ]

When I added sk_pacing_rate field, I forgot to initialize its value
in the per cpu unicast_sock used in ip_send_unicast_reply()

This means that for sch_fq users, RST packets, or ACK packets sent
on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets might be sent to slowly or even dropped
once we reach the per flow limit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Fixes: 95bd09eb2750 ("tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct inet_sock,
 		.sk_wmem_alloc	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
 		.sk_allocation	= GFP_ATOMIC,
 		.sk_flags	= (1UL << SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE),
+		.sk_pacing_rate = ~0U,
 	},
 	.pmtudisc	= IP_PMTUDISC_WANT,
 	.uc_ttl		= -1,


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