netdev - [PATCH] SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked.

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:55:06 +0800
From:	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	vladislav <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	lksctp-dev <lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the
 data is acked.

Vlad,
According to RFC4960 7.2.2, 
When all of the data transmitted by the sender has
been acknowledged by the recerver, partial_bytes_acked is initialized to 0.

This patch conforms to rfc requirement. 
Without this fix, cwnd might be error incremented.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
---
 net/sctp/outqueue.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/outqueue.c b/net/sctp/outqueue.c
index c071446..cf79485 100644
--- a/net/sctp/outqueue.c
+++ b/net/sctp/outqueue.c
@@ -1544,6 +1544,9 @@ static void sctp_check_transmitted(struct sctp_outq *q,
 						  bytes_acked);
 
 			transport->flight_size -= bytes_acked;
+			if (transport->flight_size == 0) {
+				transport->partial_bytes_acked = 0;
+			}
 			q->outstanding_bytes -= bytes_acked;
 		} else {
 			/* RFC 2960 6.1, sctpimpguide-06 2.15.2
-- 
1.5.3





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