Re: [PATCH 2/6]: Bug in reading Ack Vectors

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On 10/28/07, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [CCID2]: Bug in reading Ack Vectors
>
> In CCID2 the receiver-history is sorted in ascending order of sequence number,
> but the processing of received Ack Vectors requires the list traversal in the
> opposite direction.
>
> The current code has a bug in this regard: the list traversal is upwards. As a
> consequence, only Ack Vectors with a run length of 1 will pass, in all other
> Ack Vectors the remaining (acked) sequence numbers are missed, and may later
> falsely be identified as lost.
>
> Note: This bug is only visible when Ack Ratio > 1, since otherwise the run
>       lengths of Ack Vectors are 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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