From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:02:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start()
X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc1~125^2~50
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tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start()

When/if sysctl_tcp_abc > 1, we expect to increase cwnd by 2 if the
received ACK acknowledges more than 2*MSS bytes, in tcp_slow_start()

Problem is this RFC 3465 statement is not correctly coded, as
the while () loop increases snd_cwnd one by one.

Add a new variable to avoid this off-by one error.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index 04dbd7ae7c6..4d4db16e336 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_is_cwnd_limited);
 void tcp_slow_start(struct tcp_sock *tp)
 {
 	int cnt; /* increase in packets */
+	unsigned int delta = 0;
 
 	/* RFC3465: ABC Slow start
 	 * Increase only after a full MSS of bytes is acked
@@ -333,9 +334,9 @@ void tcp_slow_start(struct tcp_sock *tp)
 	tp->snd_cwnd_cnt += cnt;
 	while (tp->snd_cwnd_cnt >= tp->snd_cwnd) {
 		tp->snd_cwnd_cnt -= tp->snd_cwnd;
-		if (tp->snd_cwnd < tp->snd_cwnd_clamp)
-			tp->snd_cwnd++;
+		delta++;
 	}
+	tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd + delta, tp->snd_cwnd_clamp);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_slow_start);