From 44abafc4cc094214a99f860f778c48ecb23422fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 11:21:27 -0700 Subject: tcp: disallow cwnd undo when switching congestion control When the sender switches its congestion control during loss recovery, if the recovery is spurious then it may incorrectly revert cwnd and ssthresh to the older values set by a previous congestion control. Consider a congestion control (like BBR) that does not use ssthresh and keeps it infinite: the connection may incorrectly revert cwnd to an infinite value when switching from BBR to another congestion control. This patch fixes it by disallowing such cwnd undo operation upon switching congestion control. Note that undo_marker is not reset s.t. the packets that were incorrectly marked lost would be corrected. We only avoid undoing the cwnd in tcp_undo_cwnd_reduction(). Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c index 6e3c512054a6..324c9bcc5456 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c @@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ void tcp_init_congestion_control(struct sock *sk) { const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); + tcp_sk(sk)->prior_ssthresh = 0; if (icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init) icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init(sk); if (tcp_ca_needs_ecn(sk)) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b