[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "tcp_cubic: fix the range of delayed_ack" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jun 3 10:27:34 UTC 2014


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

    tcp_cubic: fix the range of delayed_ack

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From eeb5cfbcf48c414c05e7f3eb7df0fb57b562875c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liu Yu <allanyuliu at tencent.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:34:09 +0800
Subject: tcp_cubic: fix the range of delayed_ack

commit 0cda345d1b2201dd15591b163e3c92bad5191745 upstream.

commit b9f47a3aaeab (tcp_cubic: limit delayed_ack ratio to prevent
divide error) try to prevent divide error, but there is still a little
chance that delayed_ack can reach zero. In case the param cnt get
negative value, then ratio+cnt would overflow and may happen to be zero.
As a result, min(ratio, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT) will calculate to be zero.

In some old kernels, such as 2.6.32, there is a bug that would
pass negative param, which then ultimately leads to this divide error.

commit 5b35e1e6e9c (tcp: fix tcp_trim_head() to adjust segment count
with skb MSS) fixed the negative param issue. However,
it's safe that we fix the range of delayed_ack as well,
to make sure we do not hit a divide by zero.

CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <allanyuliu at tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
index b6ae92a51f58..894b7cea5d7b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static void bictcp_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt_us)
 		ratio -= ca->delayed_ack >> ACK_RATIO_SHIFT;
 		ratio += cnt;

-		ca->delayed_ack = min(ratio, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT);
+		ca->delayed_ack = clamp(ratio, 1U, ACK_RATIO_LIMIT);
 	}

 	/* Some calls are for duplicates without timetamps */
--
1.9.1





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