tcp_yeah: don't set ssthresh below 2

[ Upstream commit 83d15e70c4d8909d722c0d64747d8fb42e38a48f ]

For tcp_yeah, use an ssthresh floor of 2, the same floor used by Reno
and CUBIC, per RFC 5681 (equation 4).

tcp_yeah_ssthresh() was sometimes returning a 0 or negative ssthresh
value if the intended reduction is as big or bigger than the current
cwnd. Congestion control modules should never return a zero or
negative ssthresh. A zero ssthresh generally results in a zero cwnd,
causing the connection to stall. A negative ssthresh value will be
interpreted as a u32 and will set a target cwnd for PRR near 4
billion.

Oleksandr Natalenko reported that a system using tcp_yeah with ECN
could see a warning about a prior_cwnd of 0 in
tcp_cwnd_reduction(). Testing verified that this was due to
tcp_yeah_ssthresh() misbehaving in this way.

Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c
index 05c3b6f0e8e1cfa4b6f0530c826df9f5402dfe7d..bf8321d6f2ef2db596f846d4627d7bfc7b80ee15 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static u32 tcp_yeah_ssthresh(struct sock *sk) {
        yeah->fast_count = 0;
        yeah->reno_count = max(yeah->reno_count>>1, 2U);
 
-       return tp->snd_cwnd - reduction;
+       return max_t(int, tp->snd_cwnd - reduction, 2);
 }
 
 static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_yeah __read_mostly = {