[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 314a52f5d0dd1bd8a99b9224a8443a445c107883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:20:40 +0400
Subject: tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets

[ Upstream commit c7781a6e3c4a9a17e144ec2db00ebfea327bd627 ]

u32 rcv_tstamp;     /* timestamp of last received ACK */

Its value used in tcp_retransmit_timer, which closes socket
if the last ack was received more then TCP_RTO_MAX ago.

Currently rcv_tstamp is initialized to zero and if tcp_retransmit_timer
is called before receiving a first ack, the connection is closed.

This patch initializes rcv_tstamp to a timestamp, when a socket was
restored.

Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at parallels.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet at ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov at openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 18b6e16..0bdd879 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2884,6 +2884,8 @@ void tcp_connect_init(struct sock *sk)

 	if (likely(!tp->repair))
 		tp->rcv_nxt = 0;
+	else
+		tp->rcv_tstamp = tcp_time_stamp;
 	tp->rcv_wup = tp->rcv_nxt;
 	tp->copied_seq = tp->rcv_nxt;

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1.8.1.2