Patch "tcp_nv: fix division by zero in tcpnv_acked()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tcp_nv: fix division by zero in tcpnv_acked()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
tcp_nv-fix-division-by-zero-in-tcpnv_acked.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:32:15 +0300
Subject: tcp_nv: fix division by zero in tcpnv_acked()

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 4eebff27ca4182bbf5f039dd60d79e2d7c0a707e ]

Average RTT could become zero. This happened in real life at least twice. This patch treats zero as 1us.

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_nv.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static void tcpnv_acked(struct sock *sk,
 
 	/* rate in 100's bits per second */
 	rate64 = ((u64)sample->in_flight) * 8000000;
-	rate = (u32)div64_u64(rate64, (u64)(avg_rtt * 100));
+	rate = (u32)div64_u64(rate64, (u64)(avg_rtt ?: 1) * 100);
 
 	/* Remember the maximum rate seen during this RTT
 	 * Note: It may be more than one RTT. This function should be

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/tcp_nv-fix-division-by-zero-in-tcpnv_acked.patch