tcp: avoid setting cwnd to invalid ssthresh after cwnd reduction states
authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tue, 1 Aug 2017 20:22:32 +0000 (13:22 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 02:29:08 +0000 (19:29 -0700)
commit025bb7f7e92c2dc3320eefb5676e1813e3c8fa1d
treefb6ac24ba9bd7e78a33c3f586d951af122df32cc
parent2ab639c7e2d1f02779c8947c90d8d595f5843e52
tcp: avoid setting cwnd to invalid ssthresh after cwnd reduction states

[ Upstream commit ed254971edea92c3ac5c67c6a05247a92aa6075e ]

If the sender switches the congestion control during ECN-triggered
cwnd-reduction state (CA_CWR), upon exiting recovery cwnd is set to
the ssthresh value calculated by the previous congestion control. If
the previous congestion control is BBR that always keep ssthresh
to TCP_INIFINITE_SSTHRESH, cwnd ends up being infinite. The safe
step is to avoid assigning invalid ssthresh value when recovery ends.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c