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> --- Changes in v2: - Flesh out commit message Changes in v3: - Compare transport state instead of pathmaxrxt net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c index 5d6883f..7805623 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c @@ -496,11 +496,12 @@ static void sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike(sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands, /* If the transport error count is greater than the pf_retrans * threshold, and less than pathmaxrtx, and if the current state - * is not SCTP_UNCONFIRMED, then mark this transport as Partially - * Failed, see SCTP Quick Failover Draft, section 5.1 + * is not SCTP_UNCONFIRMED or SCTP_INACTIVE, then mark this transport + * as Partially Failed, see SCTP Quick Failover Draft, section 5.1 */ if ((transport->state != SCTP_PF) && (transport->state != SCTP_UNCONFIRMED) && + (transport->state != SCTP_INACTIVE) && (asoc->pf_retrans < transport->pathmaxrxt) && (transport->error_count > asoc->pf_retrans)) { -- 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