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Commit 2bef7c8c authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mptcp: fix bogus receive window shrinkage with multiple subflows

commit 6bec0411 upstream.

In case multiple subflows race to update the mptcp-level receive
window, the subflow losing the race should use the window value
provided by the "winning" subflow to update it's own tcp-level
rcv_wnd.

To such goal, the current code bogusly uses the mptcp-level rcv_wnd
value as observed before the update attempt. On unlucky circumstances
that may lead to TCP-level window shrinkage, and stall the other end.

Address the issue feeding to the rcv wnd update the correct value.

Fixes: f3589be0

 ("mptcp: never shrink offered window")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/427
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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