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[TCP]: Fix fastpath_cnt_hint when GSO skb is partially ACKed
authorIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:55:43 +0000 (18:55 +0200)
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:55:43 +0000 (18:55 +0200)
commitcbff46726c3215667ec7a2f52229d100cc909ba6
tree897722081e2f28097e744aae0bfbec2cfca3a9bd
parentecd7e9d89a57343c5fb687b9651f1fc1adab1dde
[TCP]: Fix fastpath_cnt_hint when GSO skb is partially ACKed

When only GSO skb was partially ACKed, no hints are reset,
therefore fastpath_cnt_hint must be tweaked too or else it can
corrupt fackets_out. The corruption to occur, one must have
non-trivial ACK/SACK sequence, so this bug is not very often
that harmful. There's a fackets_out state reset in TCP because
fackets_out is known to be inaccurate and that fixes the issue
eventually anyway.

In case there was also at least one skb that got fully ACKed,
the fastpath_skb_hint is set to NULL which causes a recount for
fastpath_cnt_hint (the old value won't be accessed anymore),
thus it can safely be decremented without additional checking.

Reported by Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c