Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2017-08-03

[PATCH net] tcp: avoid setting cwnd to invalid ssthresh after cwnd reduction states

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From: Yuchung Cheng <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-01 20:22:42
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds

If the sender switches the congestion control during ECN-triggered
cwnd-reduction state (CA_CWR), upon exiting recovery cwnd is set to
the ssthresh value calculated by the previous congestion control. If
the previous congestion control is BBR that always keep ssthresh
to TCP_INIFINITE_SSTHRESH, cwnd ends up being infinite. The safe
step is to avoid assigning invalid ssthresh value when recovery ends.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 2920e0cb09f8..dad026fcfd09 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2520,8 +2520,8 @@ static inline void tcp_end_cwnd_reduction(struct sock *sk)
 		return;
 
 	/* Reset cwnd to ssthresh in CWR or Recovery (unless it's undone) */
-	if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_CWR ||
-	    (tp->undo_marker && tp->snd_ssthresh < TCP_INFINITE_SSTHRESH)) {
+	if (tp->snd_ssthresh < TCP_INFINITE_SSTHRESH &&
+	    (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_CWR || tp->undo_marker)) {
 		tp->snd_cwnd = tp->snd_ssthresh;
 		tp->snd_cwnd_stamp = tcp_jiffies32;
 	}
-- 
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