Patch "tcp: disallow cwnd undo when switching congestion control" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "tcp: disallow cwnd undo when switching congestion control" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: disallow cwnd undo when switching congestion control

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcp-disallow-cwnd-undo-when-switching-congestion-control.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jun  8 08:58:26 CEST 2017
From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 11:21:27 -0700
Subject: tcp: disallow cwnd undo when switching congestion control

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>


[ Upstream commit 44abafc4cc094214a99f860f778c48ecb23422fc ]

When the sender switches its congestion control during loss
recovery, if the recovery is spurious then it may incorrectly
revert cwnd and ssthresh to the older values set by a previous
congestion control. Consider a congestion control (like BBR)
that does not use ssthresh and keeps it infinite: the connection
may incorrectly revert cwnd to an infinite value when switching
from BBR to another congestion control.

This patch fixes it by disallowing such cwnd undo operation
upon switching congestion control.  Note that undo_marker
is not reset s.t. the packets that were incorrectly marked
lost would be corrected. We only avoid undoing the cwnd in
tcp_undo_cwnd_reduction().

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-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_cong.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ void tcp_init_congestion_control(struct
 {
 	const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 
+	tcp_sk(sk)->prior_ssthresh = 0;
 	if (icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init)
 		icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init(sk);
 	if (tcp_ca_needs_ecn(sk))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ycheng@google.com are

queue-4.9/tcp-disallow-cwnd-undo-when-switching-congestion-control.patch