tree d77f00f64662b1c41bceda5083c123b55650e11e
parent dccf76ca6b626c0c4a4e09bb221adee3270ab0ef
author Chang Xiangzhong <changxiangzhong@gmail.com> 1384387106 +0100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1384464909 -0500

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: Chang Xiangzhong <changxiangzhong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>