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Commit d30a58ba authored by Chang Xiangzhong's avatar Chang Xiangzhong Committed by David S. Miller
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net: sctp: bug-fixing: retran_path not set properly after transports recovering (v3)



When a transport recovers due to the new coming sack, SCTP should
iterate all of its transport_list to locate the __two__ most recently used
transport and set to active_path and retran_path respectively. The exising
code does not find the two properly - In case of the following list:

[most-recent] -> [2nd-most-recent] -> ...

Both active_path and retran_path would be set to the 1st element.

The bug happens when:
1) multi-homing
2) failure/partial_failure transport recovers
Both active_path and retran_path would be set to the same most-recent one, in
other words, retran_path would not take its role - an end user might not even
notice this issue.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChang Xiangzhong <changxiangzhong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent dccf76ca
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