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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2017-05-31 11:21:27 -0700
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-11-06 15:29:28 +0100
commit329efc6a8f4ac3ad0ca2d3ac8424cda2a642ba51 (patch)
tree9cfd12baeb39dce1246e300900f116c2d38832ca /net
parent0d59d94365a8beebddb6f26c6181f4272ddaef76 (diff)
tcp: disallow cwnd undo when switching congestion control
commit 44abafc4cc094214a99f860f778c48ecb23422fc upstream. When the sender switches its congestion control during loss recovery, if the recovery is spurious then it may incorrectly revert cwnd and ssthresh to the older values set by a previous congestion control. Consider a congestion control (like BBR) that does not use ssthresh and keeps it infinite: the connection may incorrectly revert cwnd to an infinite value when switching from BBR to another congestion control. This patch fixes it by disallowing such cwnd undo operation upon switching congestion control. Note that undo_marker is not reset s.t. the packets that were incorrectly marked lost would be corrected. We only avoid undoing the cwnd in tcp_undo_cwnd_reduction(). Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index 76f218141..e983d39a1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ void tcp_init_congestion_control(struct sock *sk)
rcu_read_unlock();
}
+ tcp_sk(sk)->prior_ssthresh = 0;
if (icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init)
icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init(sk);
}