[patch 18/48] sctp: Properly timestamp outgoing data chunks for rtx purposes

Greg KH
2009-02-14T01:35:09Z

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2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>

[ Upstream commit 759af00ebef858015eb68876ac1f383bcb6a1774 ]

Recent changes to the retransmit code exposed a long standing
bug where it was possible for a chunk to be time stamped
after the retransmit timer was reset. This caused a rare
situation where the retrnamist timer has expired, but
nothing was marked for retrnasmission because all of
timesamps on data were less then 1 rto ago. As result,
the timer was never restarted since nothing was retransmitted,
and this resulted in a hung association that did couldn't
complete the data transfer. The solution is to timestamp
the chunk when it's added to the packet for transmission
purposes. After the packet is trsnmitted the rtx timer
is restarted. This guarantees that when the timer expires,
there will be data to retransmit.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/sctp/output.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sctp/output.c
+++ b/net/sctp/output.c
@@ -324,14 +324,16 @@ append:
switch (chunk->chunk_hdr->type) {
case SCTP_CID_DATA:
retval = sctp_packet_append_data(packet, chunk);
+ if (SCTP_XMIT_OK != retval)
+ goto finish;
/* Disallow SACK bundling after DATA. */
packet->has_sack = 1;
/* Disallow AUTH bundling after DATA */
packet->has_auth = 1;
/* Let it be knows that packet has DATA in it */
packet->has_data = 1;
- if (SCTP_XMIT_OK != retval)
- goto finish;
+ /* timestamp the chunk for rtx purposes */
+ chunk->sent_at = jiffies;
break;
case SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ECHO:
packet->has_cookie_echo = 1;
@@ -470,7 +472,6 @@ int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_pac
} else
chunk->resent = 1;

- chunk->sent_at = jiffies;
has_data = 1;
}