sctp: update order of adjustments of partial_bytes_acked and cwnd
RFC4960 Errata 3.12 says RFC4960 is unclear about the order of adjustments applied to partial_bytes_acked and cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase, and that the actual order should be: partial_bytes_acked is reset to (partial_bytes_acked - cwnd). Next, cwnd is increased by MTU. We were first increasing cwnd, and then subtracting the new value pba, which leads to a different result as pba is smaller than what it should and could cause cwnd to not grow as much. See-also: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-errata-01#section-3.12 Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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