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sctp: Error in calculation of RTTvar
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The calculation of RTTVAR involves the subtraction of two unsigned
numbers which
may causes rollover and results in very high values of RTTVAR when RTT > SRTT.
With this patch it is possible to set RTOmin = 1 to get the minimum of RTO at
4 times the clock granularity.

Change Notes:

v2)
        *Replaced abs() by abs64() and long by __s64, changed patch
description.

Signed-off-by: Christian Schoch <e0326715@student.tuwien.ac.at>
CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
CC: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Schoch Christian authored and David S. Miller committed Nov 28, 2012
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/sctp/transport.c
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Expand Up @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ void sctp_transport_update_rto(struct sctp_transport *tp, __u32 rtt)
* 1/8, rto_alpha would be expressed as 3.
*/
tp->rttvar = tp->rttvar - (tp->rttvar >> net->sctp.rto_beta)
+ ((abs(tp->srtt - rtt)) >> net->sctp.rto_beta);
+ (((__u32)abs64((__s64)tp->srtt - (__s64)rtt)) >> net->sctp.rto_beta);
tp->srtt = tp->srtt - (tp->srtt >> net->sctp.rto_alpha)
+ (rtt >> net->sctp.rto_alpha);
} else {
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