[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "tcp_yeah: don't set ssthresh below 2" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    tcp_yeah: don't set ssthresh below 2

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt14.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:42:43 -0500
Subject: tcp_yeah: don't set ssthresh below 2

[ Upstream commit 83d15e70c4d8909d722c0d64747d8fb42e38a48f ]

For tcp_yeah, use an ssthresh floor of 2, the same floor used by Reno
and CUBIC, per RFC 5681 (equation 4).

tcp_yeah_ssthresh() was sometimes returning a 0 or negative ssthresh
value if the intended reduction is as big or bigger than the current
cwnd. Congestion control modules should never return a zero or
negative ssthresh. A zero ssthresh generally results in a zero cwnd,
causing the connection to stall. A negative ssthresh value will be
interpreted as a u32 and will set a target cwnd for PRR near 4
billion.

Oleksandr Natalenko reported that a system using tcp_yeah with ECN
could see a warning about a prior_cwnd of 0 in
tcp_cwnd_reduction(). Testing verified that this was due to
tcp_yeah_ssthresh() misbehaving in this way.

Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr at natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c
index 17d3566..3e6a472 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static u32 tcp_yeah_ssthresh(struct sock *sk)
 	yeah->fast_count = 0;
 	yeah->reno_count = max(yeah->reno_count>>1, 2U);

-	return tp->snd_cwnd - reduction;
+	return max_t(int, tp->snd_cwnd - reduction, 2);
 }

 static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_yeah __read_mostly = {
--
1.9.1