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Commit 1dc68c19 authored by Xin Long's avatar Xin Long Committed by David S. Miller
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sctp: do state transition when PROBE_COUNT == MAX_PROBES on HB send path



The state transition is described in rfc8899#section-5.2,
PROBE_COUNT == MAX_PROBES means the probe fails for MAX times, and the
state transition includes:

  - Base -> Error, occurs when BASE_PLPMTU Confirmation Fails,
    pl.pmtu is set to SCTP_MIN_PLPMTU,
    probe_size is still SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU;

  - Search -> Base, occurs when Black Hole Detected,
    pl.pmtu is set to SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU,
    probe_size is set back to SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU;

  - Search Complete -> Base, occurs when Black Hole Detected
    pl.pmtu is set to SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU,
    probe_size is set back to SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU;

Note a black hole is encountered when a sender is unaware that packets
are not being delivered to the destination endpoint. So it includes the
probe failures with equal probe_size to pl.pmtu, and definitely not
include that with greater probe_size than pl.pmtu. The later one is the
normal probe failure where probe_size should decrease back to pl.pmtu
and pl.probe_high is set.  pl.probe_high would be used on HB ACK recv
path in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent fe59379b
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