when the tcp_retranmission_timer expires and tcp_retranmsit_skb is
called if the retranmsission fails due to local congestion,
backoff should not incremented.
tcp_retransmit_skb() returns non-zero negative value in some cases of
failure but the caller tcp_retransmission_timer() has a check for
failure which checks if the return value is greater than zero.
The check is corrected to check for non-zero value.
Change-Id: I494fed73b2e385216402c91e9558d5c2884add5b
Signed-off-by: Sharath Chandra Vurukala <shara...@codeaurora.org>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 4be66e4..a70b4a9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
tcp_enter_loss(sk);
- if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_head(sk), 1) > 0) {
+ if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_head(sk), 1) != 0) {
/* Retransmission failed because of local congestion,
* do not backoff.
*/
--
1.9.1
