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Patch "tcp: fix potential underestimation on rcv_rtt" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

tcp: fix potential underestimation on rcv_rtt

to the 4.14-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-fix-potential-underestimation-on-rcv_rtt.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

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From foo@baz Sun Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017

From: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:28:58 -0800
Subject: tcp: fix potential underestimation on rcv_rtt

From: Wei Wang <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 9ee11bd03cb1a5c3ca33c2bb70e7ed325f68890f ]

When ms timestamp is used, current logic uses 1us in tcp_rcv_rtt_update() when the real rcv_rtt is within 1 - 999us. This could cause rcv_rtt underestimation.
Fix it by always using a min value of 1ms if ms timestamp is used.

Fixes 645f4c6f2ebd ("tcp: switch rcv_rtt_est and rcvq_space to high resolution timestamps")
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +6 -4
@@ -521,9 +521,6 @@ static void tcp_rcv_rtt_update(struct tc
 	u32 new_sample = tp->rcv_rtt_est.rtt_us;
 	long m = sample;
 
-	if (m == 0)
-		m = 1;
-
 	if (new_sample != 0) {
 		/* If we sample in larger samples in the non-timestamp
 		 * case, we could grossly overestimate the RTT especially
@@ -560,6 +557,8 @@ static inline void tcp_rcv_rtt_measure(s
 	if (before(tp->rcv_nxt, tp->rcv_rtt_est.seq))
 		return;
 	delta_us = tcp_stamp_us_delta(tp->tcp_mstamp, tp->rcv_rtt_est.time);
+	if (!delta_us)
+		delta_us = 1;
 	tcp_rcv_rtt_update(tp, delta_us, 1);
 
 new_measure:
@@ -576,8 +575,11 @@ static inline void tcp_rcv_rtt_measure_t
 	    (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq -
 	     TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq >= inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.rcv_mss)) {
 		u32 delta = tcp_time_stamp(tp) - tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr;
-		u32 delta_us = delta * (USEC_PER_SEC / TCP_TS_HZ);
+		u32 delta_us;
 
+		if (!delta)
+			delta = 1;
+		delta_us = delta * (USEC_PER_SEC / TCP_TS_HZ);
 		tcp_rcv_rtt_update(tp, delta_us, 0);
 	}
 }

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

queue-4.14/tcp-fix-potential-underestimation-on-rcv_rtt.patch