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Message-ID: <20171221095434.GA3342@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:54:34 +0100
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: alexander.levin@...izon.com
Cc: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
Hoang Tran <tranviethoang.vn@...il.com>,
Hoang Tran <hoang.tran@...ouvain.be>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 3.18 40/40] tcp: fix under-evaluated ssthresh
in TCP Vegas
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 01:59:21AM +0000, alexander.levin@...izon.com wrote:
> From: Hoang Tran <tranviethoang.vn@...il.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit cf5d74b85ef40c202c76d90959db4d850f301b95 ]
>
> With the commit 76174004a0f19785 (tcp: do not slow start when cwnd equals
> ssthresh), the comparison to the reduced cwnd in tcp_vegas_ssthresh() would
> under-evaluate the ssthresh.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hoang Tran <hoang.tran@...ouvain.be>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
> ---
> net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
76174004a0f19785 did not show up until 4.3-rc1, so this isn't needed for
3.18-stable, so I'm going to drop it from that set of patches.
thanks,
greg k-h
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
> index a6afde666ab1..28b2728a06c4 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_cwnd_event);
>
> static inline u32 tcp_vegas_ssthresh(struct tcp_sock *tp)
> {
> - return min(tp->snd_ssthresh, tp->snd_cwnd-1);
> + return min(tp->snd_ssthresh, tp->snd_cwnd);
> }
>
> static void tcp_vegas_cong_avoid(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, u32 acked)
> --
> 2.11.0
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