On 11/30/2018 10:28 AM, Sharath Chandra Vurukala wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sharath Chandra Vurukala <shara...@codeaurora.org>
>
This looks wrong.
Yuchung has cooked a patch series to really address issues, please wait for it
We are waiting for David Miller to merge a prior patch series into net tree,
then
in net-next.
Thanks.
