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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net] net: sctp: Don't transition to PF state when
 transport has exhausted 'Path.Max.Retrans'.
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 23:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Karl Heiss <kheiss@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:26:30 -0400

> Don't transition to the PF state on every strike after 'Path.Max.Retrans'.
> Per draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover-03 Section 5.1.6:
> 
>    Additional (PMR - PFMR) consecutive timeouts on a PF destination
>    confirm the path failure, upon which the destination transitions to the
>    Inactive state.  As described in [RFC4960], the sender (i) SHOULD notify
>    ULP about this state transition, and (ii) transmit heartbeats to the
>    Inactive destination at a lower frequency as described in Section 8.3 of
>    [RFC4960].
> 
> This also prevents sending SCTP_ADDR_UNREACHABLE to the user as the state
> bounces between SCTP_INACTIVE and SCTP_PF for each subsequent strike.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karl Heiss <kheiss@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.