sctp: be more restrictive in transport selection on bundled sacks

It was noticed recently that when we send data on a transport, its possible that
we might bundle a sack that arrived on a different transport.  While this isn't
a major problem, it does go against the SHOULD requirement in section 6.4 of RFC
2960:

 An endpoint SHOULD transmit reply chunks (e.g., SACK, HEARTBEAT ACK,
   etc.) to the same destination transport address from which it
   received the DATA or control chunk to which it is replying.  This
   rule should also be followed if the endpoint is bundling DATA chunks
   together with the reply chunk.

This patch seeks to correct that.  It restricts the bundling of sack operations
to only those transports which have moved the ctsn of the association forward
since the last sack.  By doing this we guarantee that we only bundle outbound
saks on a transport that has received a chunk since the last sack.  This brings
us into stricter compliance with the RFC.

Vlad had initially suggested that we strictly allow only sack bundling on the
transport that last moved the ctsn forward.  While this makes sense, I was
concerned that doing so prevented us from bundling in the case where we had
received chunks that moved the ctsn on multiple transports.  In those cases, the
RFC allows us to select any of the transports having received chunks to bundle
the sack on.  so I've modified the approach to allow for that, by adding a state
variable to each transport that tracks weather it has moved the ctsn since the
last sack.  This I think keeps our behavior (and performance), close enough to
our current profile that I think we can do this without a sysctl knob to
enable/disable it.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Vlad Yaseivch <vyasevich@gmail.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Michele Baldessari <michele@redhat.com>
Reported-by: sorin serban <sserban@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index e4652fe58958..fecdf31816f2 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -912,6 +912,9 @@ struct sctp_transport {
 		/* Is this structure kfree()able? */
 		malloced:1;
 
+	/* Has this transport moved the ctsn since we last sacked */
+	__u32 sack_generation;
+
 	struct flowi fl;
 
 	/* This is the peer's IP address and port. */
@@ -1584,6 +1587,7 @@ struct sctp_association {
 		 */
 		__u8    sack_needed;     /* Do we need to sack the peer? */
 		__u32	sack_cnt;
+		__u32	sack_generation;
 
 		/* These are capabilities which our peer advertised.  */
 		__u8	ecn_capable:1,	    /* Can peer do ECN? */
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/tsnmap.h b/include/net/sctp/tsnmap.h
index e7728bc14ccf..2c5d2b4d5d1e 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/tsnmap.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/tsnmap.h
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ void sctp_tsnmap_free(struct sctp_tsnmap *map);
 int sctp_tsnmap_check(const struct sctp_tsnmap *, __u32 tsn);
 
 /* Mark this TSN as seen.  */
-int sctp_tsnmap_mark(struct sctp_tsnmap *, __u32 tsn);
+int sctp_tsnmap_mark(struct sctp_tsnmap *, __u32 tsn,
+		     struct sctp_transport *trans);
 
 /* Mark this TSN and all lower as seen. */
 void sctp_tsnmap_skip(struct sctp_tsnmap *map, __u32 tsn);