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| author | Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> | 2007-10-08 08:43:10 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2007-10-08 08:43:10 +0200 |
| commit | 48611c47d09023d9356e78550d1cadb8d61da9c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e118a43db7143f8091b5b0a95e6d6f85dc5b2f9 /net/rose | |
| parent | Driver core: fix SYSF_DEPRECATED breakage for nested classdevs (diff) | |
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[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>
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