sctp: fix the transports round robin issue when init is retransmitted

prior to this patch, at the beginning if we have two paths in one assoc,
they may have the same params other than the last_time_heard, it will try
the paths like this:

1st cycle
  try trans1 fail.
  then trans2 is selected.(cause it's last_time_heard is after trans1).

2nd cycle:
  try  trans2 fail
  then trans2 is selected.(cause it's last_time_heard is after trans1).

3rd cycle:
  try  trans2 fail
  then trans2 is selected.(cause it's last_time_heard is after trans1).

....

trans1 will never have change to be selected, which is not what we expect.
we should keeping round robin all the paths if they are just added at the
beginning.

So at first every tranport's last_time_heard should be initialized 0, so
that we ensure they have the same value at the beginning, only by this,
all the transports could get equal chance to be selected.

Then for sctp_trans_elect_best, it should return the trans_next one when
*trans == *trans_next, so that we can try next if it fails,  but now it
always return trans. so we can fix it by exchanging these two params when
we calls sctp_trans_elect_tie().

Fixes: 4c47af4d5eb2 ('net: sctp: rework multihoming retransmission path selection to rfc4960')
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c
index 2bf8ec92dde482ed6ab59275aad492d5abc5385e..cd873446433cdd857248d027724598e7914dd3fe 100644 (file)
--- a/net/sctp/associola.c
+++ b/net/sctp/associola.c
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ static struct sctp_transport *sctp_trans_elect_best(struct sctp_transport *curr,
        if (score_curr > score_best)
                return curr;
        else if (score_curr == score_best)
-               return sctp_trans_elect_tie(curr, best);
+               return sctp_trans_elect_tie(best, curr);
        else
                return best;
 }

diff --git a/net/sctp/transport.c b/net/sctp/transport.c
index a431c14044a46f98e9b73f66e28f229690ef3c01..d517153891a6efca6242ce1a4b3d86afb9026542 100644 (file)
--- a/net/sctp/transport.c
+++ b/net/sctp/transport.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static struct sctp_transport *sctp_transport_init(struct net *net,
         */
        peer->rto = msecs_to_jiffies(net->sctp.rto_initial);
 
-       peer->last_time_heard = ktime_get();
+       peer->last_time_heard = ktime_set(0, 0);
        peer->last_time_ecne_reduced = jiffies;
 
        peer->param_flags = SPP_HB_DISABLE |