tcp: fix cwnd undo in Reno and HTCP congestion controls
Using ssthresh to revert cwnd is less reliable when ssthresh is
bounded to 2 packets. This patch uses an existing variable in TCP
"prior_cwnd" that snapshots the cwnd right before entering fast
recovery and RTO recovery in Reno. This fixes the issue discussed
in netdev thread: "A buggy behavior for Linux TCP Reno and HTCP"
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg444955.html
Suggested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reported-by: Wei Sun <unlcsewsun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 99cdf4c..842ed75 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1950,6 +1950,7 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
!after(tp->high_seq, tp->snd_una) ||
(icsk->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_Loss && !icsk->icsk_retransmits)) {
tp->prior_ssthresh = tcp_current_ssthresh(sk);
+ tp->prior_cwnd = tp->snd_cwnd;
tp->snd_ssthresh = icsk->icsk_ca_ops->ssthresh(sk);
tcp_ca_event(sk, CA_EVENT_LOSS);
tcp_init_undo(tp);
