Don't transition to the PF state on every strike after 'Path.Max.Retrans'. Per draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover-03 Section 5.1.6: Additional (PMR - PFMR) consecutive timeouts on a PF destination confirm the path failure, upon which the destination transitions to the Inactive state. As described in [RFC4960], the sender (i) SHOULD notify ULP about this state transition, and (ii) transmit heartbeats to the Inactive destination at a lower frequency as described in Section 8.3 of [RFC4960]. This also prevents sending SCTP_ADDR_UNREACHABLE to the user as the state bounces between SCTP_INACTIVE and SCTP_PF for each subsequent strike. Signed-off-by: Karl Heiss <kheiss@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c index 5d6883f..07f26fe 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c @@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ static void sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike(sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands, if ((transport->state != SCTP_PF) && (transport->state != SCTP_UNCONFIRMED) && (asoc->pf_retrans < transport->pathmaxrxt) && - (transport->error_count > asoc->pf_retrans)) { + (transport->error_count > asoc->pf_retrans) && + (transport->error_count <= transport->pathmaxrxt)) { sctp_assoc_control_transport(asoc, transport, SCTP_TRANSPORT_PF, -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html