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Christoph reported an infinite loop in the subflow receive path under stress condition. If there are multiple subflows, each of them using a large send buffer, the delta between the sequence number used by MPTCP-level retransmission can and the current msk->ack_seq can be greater than MAX_INT. In the above scenario, when calling mptcp_subflow_discard_data(), such delta will be truncated to int, and could result in a negative number: no bytes will be dropped, and subflow_check_data_avail() will try again to process the same packet, looping forever. This change addresses the issue by expanding the 'limit' size to 64 bits, so that overflows are not possible anymore. Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/87 Fixes: 6719331c2f73 ("mptcp: trigger msk processing even for OoO data") Reported-and-tested-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.