Merge branch 'mptcp-rtx-timer'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:24:00 +0000 (14:24 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:24:00 +0000 (14:24 +0000)
commitefaa9990cd3fcc1258343662dde390fb8cea3753
treeca2ece9d265062219bf920c4c441f2eb7017c998
parent262ae1f9de4e9bde96db5cbe0d85f17909c7f7ef
parentbcd97734318d1d87bb237dbc0a60c81237b0ac50
Merge branch 'mptcp-rtx-timer'

Paolo Abeni says:

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mptcp: fix 3rd ack rtx timer

Eric noted that the MPTCP code do the wrong thing to schedule
the MPJ 3rd ack timer. He also provided a patch to address the
issues (patch 1/2).

To fix for good the MPJ 3rd ack retransmission timer, we additionally
need to set it after the current ack is transmitted (patch 2/2)

Note that the bug went unnotice so far because all the related
tests required some running data transfer, and that causes
MPTCP-level ack even on the opening MPJ subflow. We now have
explicit packet drill coverage for this code path.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>