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Date:      Mon, 2 May 2011 21:05:52 +0000 (UTC)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-src-old@freebsd.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_input.c tcp_output.c tcp_timewait.c
Message-ID:  <201105022107.p42L71lO019799@repoman.freebsd.org>

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jhb         2011-05-02 21:05:52 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    sys/netinet          tcp_input.c tcp_output.c tcp_timewait.c 
  Log:
  SVN rev 221346 on 2011-05-02 21:05:52Z by jhb
  
  Handle a rare edge case with nearly full TCP receive buffers.  If a TCP
  buffer fills up causing the remote sender to enter into persist mode, but
  there is still room available in the receive buffer when a window probe
  arrives (either due to window scaling, or due to the local application
  very slowing draining data from the receive buffer), then the single byte
  of data in the window probe is accepted.  However, this can cause rcv_nxt
  to be greater than rcv_adv.  This condition will only last until the next
  ACK packet is pushed out via tcp_output(), and since the previous ACK
  advertised a zero window, the ACK should be pushed out while the TCP
  pcb is write-locked.
  
  During the window while rcv_nxt is greather than rcv_adv, a few places
  would compute the remaining receive window via rcv_adv - rcv_nxt.
  However, this value was then (uint32_t)-1.  On a 64 bit machine this
  could expand to a positive 2^32 - 1 when cast to a long.  In particular,
  when calculating the receive window in tcp_output(), the result would be
  that the receive window was computed as 2^32 - 1 resulting in advertising
  a far larger window to the remote peer than actually existed.
  
  Fix various places that compute the remaining receive window to either
  assert that it is not negative (i.e. rcv_nxt <= rcv_adv), or treat the
  window as full if rcv_nxt is greather than rcv_adv.
  
  Reviewed by:    bz
  MFC after:      1 month
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.431     +7 -1      src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
  1.180     +12 -5     src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c
  1.315     +3 -0      src/sys/netinet/tcp_timewait.c



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