tcp: only take RTT from timestamps if new data is acked

yuchungcheng · davem330 · commit 2909d874f34e · 2013-10-27T16:50:06.000-04:00
Patch ed08495 "tcp: use RTT from SACK for RTO" has a bug that it does not check if the ACK acknowledge new data before taking the RTT sample from TCP timestamps. This patch adds the check back as required by the RFC. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2856,7 +2856,8 @@ static inline bool tcp_ack_update_rtt(struct sock *sk, const int flag,
 	 * left edge of the send window.
 	 * See draft-ietf-tcplw-high-performance-00, section 3.3.
 	 */
-	if (seq_rtt < 0 && tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp && tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr)
+	if (seq_rtt < 0 && tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp && tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr &&
+	    flag & FLAG_ACKED)
 		seq_rtt = tcp_time_stamp - tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr;
 
 	if (seq_rtt < 0)
