Patch "tcp: initialize icsk_ack.lrcvtime at session start time" 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: initialize icsk_ack.lrcvtime at session start time

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-initialize-icsk_ack.lrcvtime-at-session-start-time.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: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:10:21 -0700
Subject: tcp: initialize icsk_ack.lrcvtime at session start time

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 15bb7745e94a665caf42bfaabf0ce062845b533b ]

icsk_ack.lrcvtime has a 0 value at socket creation time.

tcpi_last_data_recv can have bogus value if no payload is ever received.

This patch initializes icsk_ack.lrcvtime for active sessions in tcp_finish_connect(), and for passive sessions in tcp_create_openreq_child()

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c     |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -5571,6 +5571,7 @@ void tcp_finish_connect(struct sock *sk,
 	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 
 	tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_ESTABLISHED);
+	icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime = tcp_time_stamp;
 
 	if (skb) {
 		icsk->icsk_af_ops->sk_rx_dst_set(sk, skb);

@@ -5789,7 +5790,6 @@ static int tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process
 			 * to stand against the temptation 8)     --ANK
 			 */
 			inet_csk_schedule_ack(sk);
-			icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime = tcp_time_stamp;
 			tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk);
 			inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_DACK,
 						  TCP_DELACK_MAX, TCP_RTO_MAX);

@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_create_openreq_child(co
 		newtp->mdev_us = jiffies_to_usecs(TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT);
 		minmax_reset(&newtp->rtt_min, tcp_time_stamp, ~0U);
 		newicsk->icsk_rto = TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT;
+		newicsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime = tcp_time_stamp;
 
 		newtp->packets_out = 0;
 		newtp->retrans_out = 0;

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

queue-4.9/ipv4-provide-stronger-user-input-validation-in-nl_fib_input.patch queue-4.9/tcp-initialize-icsk_ack.lrcvtime-at-session-start-time.patch queue-4.9/net-properly-release-sk_frag.page.patch