[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "tcp: Fix integer-overflows in TCP veno" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    tcp: Fix integer-overflows in TCP veno

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 afd046f2d71b019983c9c30b7364418a4793a470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch at uclouvain.be>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:07:27 +0200
Subject: tcp: Fix integer-overflows in TCP veno

commit 45a07695bc64b3ab5d6d2215f9677e5b8c05a7d0 upstream.

In veno we do a multiplication of the cwnd and the rtt. This
may overflow and thus their result is stored in a u64. However, we first
need to cast the cwnd so that actually 64-bit arithmetic is done.

A first attempt at fixing 76f1017757aa0 ([TCP]: TCP Veno congestion
control) was made by 159131149c2 (tcp: Overflow bug in Vegas), but it
failed to add the required cast in tcp_veno_cong_avoid().

Fixes: 76f1017757aa0 ([TCP]: TCP Veno congestion control)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch at uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c
index ac43cd747bce..b4d1858be550 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void tcp_veno_cong_avoid(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, u32 in_flight)

 		rtt = veno->minrtt;

-		target_cwnd = (tp->snd_cwnd * veno->basertt);
+		target_cwnd = (u64)tp->snd_cwnd * veno->basertt;
 		target_cwnd <<= V_PARAM_SHIFT;
 		do_div(target_cwnd, rtt);

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1.9.1