Re: [PATCH net v3] sctp: donot reset the overall_error_count in SHUTDOWN_RECEIVE state

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:52:20AM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> Commit f8d960524328 ("sctp: Enforce retransmission limit during shutdown")
> fixed a problem with excessive retransmissions in the SHUTDOWN_PENDING by not
> resetting the association overall_error_count.  This allowed the association
> to better enforce assoc.max_retrans limit.
> 
> However, the same issue still exists when the association is in SHUTDOWN_RECEIVED
> state.  In this state, HB-ACKs will continue to reset the overall_error_count
> for the association would extend the lifetime of association unnecessarily.
> 
> This patch solves this by resetting the overall_error_count whenever the current
> state is small then SCTP_STATE_SHUTDOWN_PENDING.  As a small side-effect, we
> end up also handling SCTP_STATE_SHUTDOWN_ACK_SENT and SCTP_STATE_SHUTDOWN_SENT
> states, but they are not really impacted because we disable Heartbeats in those
> states.
> 
> Fixes: Commit f8d960524328 ("sctp: Enforce retransmission limit during shutdown")
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
thx

> ---
>  net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> index fef2acd..85e6f03 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static void sctp_cmd_transport_on(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
>  	 * outstanding data and rely on the retransmission limit be reached
>  	 * to shutdown the association.
>  	 */
> -	if (t->asoc->state != SCTP_STATE_SHUTDOWN_PENDING)
> +	if (t->asoc->state < SCTP_STATE_SHUTDOWN_PENDING)
>  		t->asoc->overall_error_count = 0;
>  
>  	/* Clear the hb_sent flag to signal that we had a good
> -- 
> 2.1.0
>