[PATCH 3.13 037/212] net: sctp: Don't transition to PF state when transport has exhausted 'Path.Max.Retrans'.

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.13.11.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Karl Heiss <kheiss@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 8c2eab9097dba50bcd73ed4632baccc3f34857f9 ]

Don't transition to the PF state on every strike after 'Path.Max.Retrans'.
Per draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover-03 Section 5.1.6:

   Additional (PMR - PFMR) consecutive timeouts on a PF destination
   confirm the path failure, upon which the destination transitions to the
   Inactive state.  As described in [RFC4960], the sender (i) SHOULD notify
   ULP about this state transition, and (ii) transmit heartbeats to the
   Inactive destination at a lower frequency as described in Section 8.3 of
   [RFC4960].

This also prevents sending SCTP_ADDR_UNREACHABLE to the user as the state
bounces between SCTP_INACTIVE and SCTP_PF for each subsequent strike.

Signed-off-by: Karl Heiss <kheiss@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
index 04b1398..aa4ea94 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
@@ -497,11 +497,10 @@ static void sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike(sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands,
 
 	/* If the transport error count is greater than the pf_retrans
 	 * threshold, and less than pathmaxrtx, and if the current state
-	 * is not SCTP_UNCONFIRMED, then mark this transport as Partially
-	 * Failed, see SCTP Quick Failover Draft, section 5.1
+	 * is SCTP_ACTIVE, then mark this transport as Partially Failed,
+	 * see SCTP Quick Failover Draft, section 5.1
 	 */
-	if ((transport->state != SCTP_PF) &&
-	   (transport->state != SCTP_UNCONFIRMED) &&
+	if ((transport->state == SCTP_ACTIVE) &&
 	   (asoc->pf_retrans < transport->pathmaxrxt) &&
 	   (transport->error_count > asoc->pf_retrans)) {
 
-- 
1.9.1

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