From: Denis Kirjanov <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:51:06 +0300

> there is a problem with the CWR flag set in an incoming ACK segment
> and it leads to the situation when the ECE flag is latched forever
> 
> the following packetdrill script shows what happens:
 ...
> In the situation above we will continue to send ECN ECHO packets
> and trigger the peer to reduce the congestion window. To avoid that
> we can check CWR on pure ACKs received.
> 
> v3:
> - Add a sequence check to avoid sending an ACK to an ACK
> 
> v2:
> - Adjusted the comment
> - move CWR check before checking for unacknowledged packets
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

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