[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "tcp: fix FRTO undo on cumulative ACK of SACKed range" 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 FRTO undo on cumulative ACK of SACKed range

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/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt20.

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 54695743e78db24e132d4142cede1777c91675d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 20:26:46 -0400
Subject: tcp: fix FRTO undo on cumulative ACK of SACKed range

[ Upstream commit 666b805150efd62f05810ff0db08f44a2370c937 ]

On processing cumulative ACKs, the FRTO code was not checking the
SACKed bit, meaning that there could be a spurious FRTO undo on a
cumulative ACK of a previously SACKed skb.

The FRTO code should only consider a cumulative ACK to indicate that
an original/unretransmitted skb is newly ACKed if the skb was not yet
SACKed.

The effect of the spurious FRTO undo would typically be to make the
connection think that all previously-sent packets were in flight when
they really weren't, leading to a stall and an RTO.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng at google.com>
Fixes: e33099f96d99c ("tcp: implement RFC5682 F-RTO")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 2ab6b821..2cc1313 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3060,10 +3060,11 @@ static int tcp_clean_rtx_queue(struct sock *sk, int prior_fackets,
 			if (seq_rtt < 0) {
 				seq_rtt = ca_seq_rtt;
 			}
-			if (!(sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED))
+			if (!(sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED)) {
 				reord = min(pkts_acked, reord);
-			if (!after(scb->end_seq, tp->high_seq))
-				flag |= FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED;
+				if (!after(scb->end_seq, tp->high_seq))
+					flag |= FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED;
+			}
 		}

 		if (sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED)
--
1.9.1