Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: bug-fixing: retran_path not set properly after transports recovering (v3)

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:58:26AM +0100, Chang Xiangzhong wrote:
> When a transport recovers due to the new coming sack, SCTP should
> iterate all of its transport_list to locate the __two__ most recently used
> transport and set to active_path and retran_path respectively. The exising
> code does not find the two properly - In case of the following list:
> 
> [most-recent] -> [2nd-most-recent] -> ...
> 
> Both active_path and retran_path would be set to the 1st element.
> 
> The bug happens when:
> 1) multi-homing
> 2) failure/partial_failure transport recovers
> Both active_path and retran_path would be set to the same most-recent one, in
> other words, retran_path would not take its role - an end user might not even
> notice this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chang Xiangzhong <changxiangzhong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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