Re: Quick failover question

[Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>]

On 08/09/2013 02:39 PM, Karl Heiss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I happened to be perusing the SCTP code in Linus' tree and noticed
> that the following is happening in net/sctp/associola.c,
> sctp_assoc_control_transport():
>
> /* Don't inform ULP about transition from PF to
>   * active state and set cwnd to 1, see SCTP
>   * Quick failover draft section 5.1, point 5
>   */
> if (transport->state = SCTP_PF) {
>      ulp_notify = false;
>      transport->cwnd = 1;
> }
>
>  From the quick failover draft, I see that the cwnd should be 1*MTU.
> This doesn't seem correct as other places set the cwnd as:
>
> transport->cwnd = asoc->pathmtu;
>
> Am I missing something or is this just a simplification?

I think you are correct, that doesn't seem right.

Fix is on its way.