[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "tcp: Fix integer-overflows in TCP veno" 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: Fix integer-overflows in TCP veno

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

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.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 04e4957da024685bc3050f1a5f44fc8b58710d56 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

[ Upstream commit 45a07695bc64b3ab5d6d2215f9677e5b8c05a7d0 ]

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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 326475a..603ad49 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void tcp_veno_cong_avoid(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, u32 acked,

 		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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