netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3][SCTP]: Reset some transport and association variables on restart

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Message-Id: <20070319.170303.106263061.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sri@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3][SCTP]: Reset some transport and association
 variables on restart

From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:38:05 -0700

> [SCTP]: Reset some transport and association variables on restart
> 
> If the association has been restarted, we need to reset the
> transport congestion variables as well as accumulated error
> counts and CACC variables.  If we do not, the association
> will use the wrong values and may terminate prematurely.
> 
> This was found with a scenario where the peer restarted
> the association when lksctp was in the last HB timeout for
> its association.  The restart happened, but the error counts
> have not been reset and when the timeout occurred, a newly
> restarted association was terminated due to excessive
> retransmits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>

Applied.
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