Re: [PATCH] sctp: refactor sctp_outq_teardown to insure proper re-initalization

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From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:48:20 -0500

> On 01/17/2013 04:15 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
>> Jamie Parsons reported a problem recently, in which the
>> re-initalization of an
>> association (The duplicate init case), resulted in a loss of receive
>> window
>> space.  He tracked down the root cause to sctp_outq_teardown, which
>> discarded
>> all the data on an outq during a re-initalization of the corresponding
>> association, but never reset the outq->outstanding_data field to zero.
>> I wrote,
>> and he tested this fix, which does a proper full re-initalization of
>> the outq,
>> fixing this problem, and hopefully future proofing us from simmilar
>> issues down
>> the road.
>>
> 
> Good find.
> 
> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks everyone.
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