From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161431AbcA0UnY (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:43:24 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:43903 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161330AbcA0Ukr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:40:47 -0500 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Neal Cardwell , Yuchung Cheng , Eric Dumazet , "David S. Miller" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 259/268] tcp_yeah: don't set ssthresh below 2 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:35:20 -0800 Message-Id: <1453926929-17663-260-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1453926929-17663-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1453926929-17663-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.2.8-ckt3 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Neal Cardwell [ Upstream commit 83d15e70c4d8909d722c0d64747d8fb42e38a48f ] For tcp_yeah, use an ssthresh floor of 2, the same floor used by Reno and CUBIC, per RFC 5681 (equation 4). tcp_yeah_ssthresh() was sometimes returning a 0 or negative ssthresh value if the intended reduction is as big or bigger than the current cwnd. Congestion control modules should never return a zero or negative ssthresh. A zero ssthresh generally results in a zero cwnd, causing the connection to stall. A negative ssthresh value will be interpreted as a u32 and will set a target cwnd for PRR near 4 billion. Oleksandr Natalenko reported that a system using tcp_yeah with ECN could see a warning about a prior_cwnd of 0 in tcp_cwnd_reduction(). Testing verified that this was due to tcp_yeah_ssthresh() misbehaving in this way. Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c index 17d3566..3e6a472 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static u32 tcp_yeah_ssthresh(struct sock *sk) yeah->fast_count = 0; yeah->reno_count = max(yeah->reno_count>>1, 2U); - return tp->snd_cwnd - reduction; + return max_t(int, tp->snd_cwnd - reduction, 2); } static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_yeah __read_mostly = { -- 1.9.1