[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate" 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: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt17.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ce4c9b76f8e1230de6b18d3126e4ae8885bd0cab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 05:47:11 -0800
Subject: tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate

commit 811230cd853d62f09ed0addd0ce9a1b9b0e13fb5 upstream.

When I added sk_pacing_rate field, I forgot to initialize its value
in the per cpu unicast_sock used in ip_send_unicast_reply()

This means that for sch_fq users, RST packets, or ACK packets sent
on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets might be sent to slowly or even dropped
once we reach the per flow limit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Fixes: 95bd09eb2750 ("tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 444d7f3..0b8fe5b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct inet_sock, unicast_sock) = {
 		.sk_wmem_alloc	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
 		.sk_allocation	= GFP_ATOMIC,
 		.sk_flags	= (1UL << SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE),
+		.sk_pacing_rate = ~0U,
 	},
 	.pmtudisc	= IP_PMTUDISC_WANT,
 	.uc_ttl		= -1,
--
1.9.1