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Message-ID: <506DC15C.8040308@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:03:24 -0400
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
CC:	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] sctp: check src addr when processing SACK to
 update transport state

On 10/03/2012 11:43 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Suppose we have an SCTP connection with two paths. After connection is
> established, path1 is not available, thus this path is marked as inactive. Then
> traffic goes through path2, but for some reasons packets are delayed (after
> rto.max). Because packets are delayed, the retransmit mechanism will switch
> again to path1. At this time, we receive a delayed SACK from path2. When we
> update the state of the path in sctp_check_transmitted(), we do not take into
> account the source address of the SACK, hence we update the wrong path.
>

Interesting problem. I think this is correct.  We should only change the 
transport state if its actually received the chunk, so I'll ack this.

Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>

-vlad

> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> ---
>   include/net/sctp/structs.h |  2 +-
>   net/sctp/outqueue.c        | 15 ++++++++++-----
>   net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c   |  4 ++--
>   net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c    |  2 +-
>   4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> index 0fef00f..64158aa 100644
> --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ void sctp_outq_init(struct sctp_association *, struct sctp_outq *);
>   void sctp_outq_teardown(struct sctp_outq *);
>   void sctp_outq_free(struct sctp_outq*);
>   int sctp_outq_tail(struct sctp_outq *, struct sctp_chunk *chunk);
> -int sctp_outq_sack(struct sctp_outq *, struct sctp_sackhdr *);
> +int sctp_outq_sack(struct sctp_outq *, struct sctp_chunk *);
>   int sctp_outq_is_empty(const struct sctp_outq *);
>   void sctp_outq_restart(struct sctp_outq *);
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/outqueue.c b/net/sctp/outqueue.c
> index d16632e..1b4a7f8 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/outqueue.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/outqueue.c
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static int sctp_acked(struct sctp_sackhdr *sack, __u32 tsn);
>   static void sctp_check_transmitted(struct sctp_outq *q,
>   				   struct list_head *transmitted_queue,
>   				   struct sctp_transport *transport,
> +				   union sctp_addr *saddr,
>   				   struct sctp_sackhdr *sack,
>   				   __u32 *highest_new_tsn);
>
> @@ -1139,9 +1140,10 @@ static void sctp_sack_update_unack_data(struct sctp_association *assoc,
>    * Process the SACK against the outqueue.  Mostly, this just frees
>    * things off the transmitted queue.
>    */
> -int sctp_outq_sack(struct sctp_outq *q, struct sctp_sackhdr *sack)
> +int sctp_outq_sack(struct sctp_outq *q, struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
>   {
>   	struct sctp_association *asoc = q->asoc;
> +	struct sctp_sackhdr *sack = chunk->subh.sack_hdr;
>   	struct sctp_transport *transport;
>   	struct sctp_chunk *tchunk = NULL;
>   	struct list_head *lchunk, *transport_list, *temp;
> @@ -1210,7 +1212,7 @@ int sctp_outq_sack(struct sctp_outq *q, struct sctp_sackhdr *sack)
>   	/* Run through the retransmit queue.  Credit bytes received
>   	 * and free those chunks that we can.
>   	 */
> -	sctp_check_transmitted(q, &q->retransmit, NULL, sack, &highest_new_tsn);
> +	sctp_check_transmitted(q, &q->retransmit, NULL, NULL, sack, &highest_new_tsn);
>
>   	/* Run through the transmitted queue.
>   	 * Credit bytes received and free those chunks which we can.
> @@ -1219,7 +1221,8 @@ int sctp_outq_sack(struct sctp_outq *q, struct sctp_sackhdr *sack)
>   	 */
>   	list_for_each_entry(transport, transport_list, transports) {
>   		sctp_check_transmitted(q, &transport->transmitted,
> -				       transport, sack, &highest_new_tsn);
> +				       transport, &chunk->source, sack,
> +				       &highest_new_tsn);
>   		/*
>   		 * SFR-CACC algorithm:
>   		 * C) Let count_of_newacks be the number of
> @@ -1326,6 +1329,7 @@ int sctp_outq_is_empty(const struct sctp_outq *q)
>   static void sctp_check_transmitted(struct sctp_outq *q,
>   				   struct list_head *transmitted_queue,
>   				   struct sctp_transport *transport,
> +				   union sctp_addr *saddr,
>   				   struct sctp_sackhdr *sack,
>   				   __u32 *highest_new_tsn_in_sack)
>   {
> @@ -1633,8 +1637,9 @@ static void sctp_check_transmitted(struct sctp_outq *q,
>   			/* Mark the destination transport address as
>   			 * active if it is not so marked.
>   			 */
> -			if ((transport->state == SCTP_INACTIVE) ||
> -			    (transport->state == SCTP_UNCONFIRMED)) {
> +			if ((transport->state == SCTP_INACTIVE ||
> +			     transport->state == SCTP_UNCONFIRMED) &&
> +			    sctp_cmp_addr_exact(&transport->ipaddr, saddr)) {
>   				sctp_assoc_control_transport(
>   					transport->asoc,
>   					transport,
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> index bcfebb9..57f7de8 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> @@ -752,11 +752,11 @@ static void sctp_cmd_transport_on(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
>   /* Helper function to process the process SACK command.  */
>   static int sctp_cmd_process_sack(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
>   				 struct sctp_association *asoc,
> -				 struct sctp_sackhdr *sackh)
> +				 struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
>   {
>   	int err = 0;
>
> -	if (sctp_outq_sack(&asoc->outqueue, sackh)) {
> +	if (sctp_outq_sack(&asoc->outqueue, chunk)) {
>   		struct net *net = sock_net(asoc->base.sk);
>
>   		/* There are no more TSNs awaiting SACK.  */
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
> index 094813b..b6adef8 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
> @@ -3179,7 +3179,7 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_eat_sack_6_2(struct net *net,
>   		return sctp_sf_violation_ctsn(net, ep, asoc, type, arg, commands);
>
>   	/* Return this SACK for further processing.  */
> -	sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_PROCESS_SACK, SCTP_SACKH(sackh));
> +	sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_PROCESS_SACK, SCTP_CHUNK(chunk));
>
>   	/* Note: We do the rest of the work on the PROCESS_SACK
>   	 * sideeffect.
>

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