Commit d30a58ba authored Nov 14, 2013 by Chang Xiangzhong Committed by David S. Miller Nov 14, 2013

net: sctp: bug-fixing: retran_path not set properly after transports recovering (v3)



When a transport recovers due to the new coming sack, SCTP should
iterate all of its transport_list to locate the __two__ most recently used
transport and set to active_path and retran_path respectively. The exising
code does not find the two properly - In case of the following list:

[most-recent] -> [2nd-most-recent] -> ...

Both active_path and retran_path would be set to the 1st element.

The bug happens when:
1) multi-homing
2) failure/partial_failure transport recovers
Both active_path and retran_path would be set to the same most-recent one, in
other words, retran_path would not take its role - an end user might not even
notice this issue.

Signed-off-by: Chang Xiangzhong <changxiangzhong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent dccf76ca

net/sctp/associola.c

+4 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -907,8 +907,8 @@ void sctp_assoc_control_transport(struct sctp_association *asoc,
		if (!first \|\| t->last_time_heard > first->last_time_heard) {
		second = first;
		first = t;
		}
		if (!second \|\| t->last_time_heard > second->last_time_heard)
		} else if (!second \|\|
		t->last_time_heard > second->last_time_heard)
		second = t;
		}

		@@ -929,6 +929,8 @@ void sctp_assoc_control_transport(struct sctp_association *asoc,
		first = asoc->peer.primary_path;
		}

		if (!second)
		second = first;
		/* If we failed to find a usable transport, just camp on the
		* primary, even if it is inactive.
		*/

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