[PATCH 3.10 62/86] tcp_cubic: fix the range of delayed_ack

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-29T04:47:39Z

From: Liu Yu <allanyuliu@tencent.com>

[ Upstream commit 0cda345d1b2201dd15591b163e3c92bad5191745 ]

commit b9f47a3aaeab (tcp_cubic: limit delayed_ack ratio to prevent
divide error) try to prevent divide error, but there is still a little
chance that delayed_ack can reach zero. In case the param cnt get
negative value, then ratio+cnt would overflow and may happen to be zero.
As a result, min(ratio, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT) will calculate to be zero.

In some old kernels, such as 2.6.32, there is a bug that would
pass negative param, which then ultimately leads to this divide error.

commit 5b35e1e6e9c (tcp: fix tcp_trim_head() to adjust segment count
with skb MSS) fixed the negative param issue. However,
it's safe that we fix the range of delayed_ack as well,
to make sure we do not hit a divide by zero.

CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <allanyuliu@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static void bictcp_acked(struct sock *sk
ratio -= ca->delayed_ack >> ACK_RATIO_SHIFT;
ratio += cnt;

- ca->delayed_ack = min(ratio, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT);
+ ca->delayed_ack = clamp(ratio, 1U, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT);
}

/* Some calls are for duplicates without timetamps */