[PATCH 4.9 03/16] tcp: avoid setting cwnd to invalid ssthresh after cwnd reduction states

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-11T22:11:29Z

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>

[ Upstream commit ed254971edea92c3ac5c67c6a05247a92aa6075e ]

If the sender switches the congestion control during ECN-triggered
cwnd-reduction state (CA_CWR), upon exiting recovery cwnd is set to
the ssthresh value calculated by the previous congestion control. If
the previous congestion control is BBR that always keep ssthresh
to TCP_INIFINITE_SSTHRESH, cwnd ends up being infinite. The safe
step is to avoid assigning invalid ssthresh value when recovery ends.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2560,8 +2560,8 @@ static inline void tcp_end_cwnd_reductio
return;

/* Reset cwnd to ssthresh in CWR or Recovery (unless it's undone) */
- if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_CWR ||
- (tp->undo_marker && tp->snd_ssthresh < TCP_INFINITE_SSTHRESH)) {
+ if (tp->snd_ssthresh < TCP_INFINITE_SSTHRESH &&
+ (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_CWR || tp->undo_marker)) {
tp->snd_cwnd = tp->snd_ssthresh;
tp->snd_cwnd_stamp = tcp_time_stamp;
}