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sctp: check src addr when processing SACK to update transport state
authorNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 05:43:22 +0000 (05:43 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:53:48 +0000 (15:53 -0400)
commitedfee0339e681a784ebacec7e8c2dc97dc6d2839
treeec4c3953956d2de79ee326d08e46c6d9736a1068
parent575659936f9d392b93b03ce97a58dbd4fce18abd
sctp: check src addr when processing SACK to update transport state

Suppose we have an SCTP connection with two paths. After connection is
established, path1 is not available, thus this path is marked as inactive. Then
traffic goes through path2, but for some reasons packets are delayed (after
rto.max). Because packets are delayed, the retransmit mechanism will switch
again to path1. At this time, we receive a delayed SACK from path2. When we
update the state of the path in sctp_check_transmitted(), we do not take into
account the source address of the SACK, hence we update the wrong path.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/sctp/structs.h
net/sctp/outqueue.c
net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c