linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 10/14] rxrpc: Fix the parsing of soft-ACKs

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Date:   Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:18:53 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 10/14] rxrpc: Fix the parsing of soft-ACKs

The soft-ACK parser doesn't increment the pointer into the soft-ACK list,
resulting in the first ACK/NACK value being applied to all the relevant
packets in the Tx queue.  This has the potential to miss retransmissions
and cause excessive retransmissions.

Fix this by incrementing the pointer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 net/rxrpc/input.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/input.c b/net/rxrpc/input.c
index f0d9115b9b7e..c1f83d22f9b7 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/input.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/input.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static void rxrpc_input_soft_acks(struct rxrpc_call *call, u8 *acks,
 
 	for (; nr_acks > 0; nr_acks--, seq++) {
 		ix = seq & RXRPC_RXTX_BUFF_MASK;
-		switch (*acks) {
+		switch (*acks++) {
 		case RXRPC_ACK_TYPE_ACK:
 			call->rxtx_annotations[ix] = RXRPC_TX_ANNO_ACK;
 			break;