RE: [PATCH next 1/2] sctp: fix the handling of SACK Gap Ack blocks

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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 20 September 2016 22:19
> sctp_acked() is using 32bit arithmetics on 16bits vars, via TSN_lte()
> macros, which is weird and confusing.
> 
> Once the offset to ctsn is calculated, all wrapping is already handled
> and thus to verify the Gap Ack blocks we can just use pure
> less/big-or-equal than checks.
> 
> Also, rename gap variable to tsn_offset, so it's more meaningful, as
> it doesn't point to any gap at all.
> 
> Even so, I don't think this discrepancy resulted in any practical bug.

I think it might if gab.start/end are greater than 32767

...
> -	gap = tsn - ctsn;
> -	for (i = 0; i < ntohs(sack->num_gap_ack_blocks); ++i) {
> -		if (TSN_lte(ntohs(frags[i].gab.start), gap) &&
> -		    TSN_lte(gap, ntohs(frags[i].gab.end)))
> +	blocks = ntohs(sack->num_gap_ack_blocks);
> +	tsn_offset = tsn - ctsn;
> +	for (i = 0; i < blocks; ++i) {
> +		if (tsn_offset >= ntohs(frags[i].gab.start) &&
> +		    tsn_offset <= ntohs(frags[i].gab.end))
...

	David

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