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Commit c9655008 authored by Pengcheng Yang's avatar Pengcheng Yang Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: fix "old stuff" D-SACK causing SACK to be treated as D-SACK

When we receive a D-SACK, where the sequence number satisfies:
	undo_marker <= start_seq < end_seq <= prior_snd_una
we consider this is a valid D-SACK and tcp_is_sackblock_valid()
returns true, then this D-SACK is discarded as "old stuff",
but the variable first_sack_index is not marked as negative
in tcp_sacktag_write_queue().

If this D-SACK also carries a SACK that needs to be processed
(for example, the previous SACK segment was lost), this SACK
will be treated as a D-SACK in the following processing of
tcp_sacktag_write_queue(), which will eventually lead to
incorrect updates of undo_retrans and reordering.

Fixes: fd6dad61

 ("[TCP]: Earlier SACK block verification & simplify access to them")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPengcheng Yang <yangpc@wangsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f7a48b68
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