Re: [PATCH] sctp: Make "Invalid Stream Identifier" ERROR follows SACK when bundling

From: Vlad Yasevich
Date: Mon Jul 23 2012 - 22:27:46 EST


xufeng zhang <xufeng.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 07/19/2012 01:57 PM, xufengzhang.main@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> When "Invalid Stream Identifier" ERROR happens after process the
>> received DATA chunks, this ERROR chunk is enqueued into outqueue
>> before SACK chunk, so when bundling ERROR chunk with SACK chunk,
>> the ERROR chunk is always placed first in the packet because of
>> the chunk's position in the outqueue.
>> This violates sctp specification:
>> RFC 4960 6.5. Stream Identifier and Stream Sequence Number
>> ...The endpoint may bundle the ERROR chunk in the same
>> packet as the SACK as long as the ERROR follows the SACK.
>> So we must place SACK first when bundling "Invalid Stream Identifier"
>> ERROR and SACK in one packet.
>> Although we can do that by enqueue SACK chunk into outqueue before
>> ERROR chunk, it will violate the side-effect interpreter processing.
>> It's easy to do this job when dequeue chunks from the outqueue,
>> by this way, we introduce a flag 'has_isi_err' which indicate
>> whether or not the "Invalid Stream Identifier" ERROR happens.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xufeng Zhang<xufeng.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/net/sctp/structs.h | 2 ++
>> net/sctp/output.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
>> index 88949a9..5adf4de 100644
>> --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
>> +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
>> @@ -842,6 +842,8 @@ struct sctp_packet {
>> has_sack:1, /* This packet contains a SACK chunk. */
>> has_auth:1, /* This packet contains an AUTH chunk */
>> has_data:1, /* This packet contains at least 1 DATA chunk */
>> + has_isi_err:1, /* This packet contains a "Invalid Stream
>> + * Identifier" ERROR chunk */
>> ipfragok:1, /* So let ip fragment this packet */
>> malloced:1; /* Is it malloced? */
>> };
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/output.c b/net/sctp/output.c
>> index 817174e..77fb1ae 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/output.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/output.c
>> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static void sctp_packet_reset(struct sctp_packet
>*packet)
>> packet->has_sack = 0;
>> packet->has_data = 0;
>> packet->has_auth = 0;
>> + packet->has_isi_err = 0;
>> packet->ipfragok = 0;
>> packet->auth = NULL;
>> }
>> @@ -267,6 +268,7 @@ static sctp_xmit_t sctp_packet_bundle_sack(struct
>sctp_packet *pkt,
>> sctp_xmit_t sctp_packet_append_chunk(struct sctp_packet *packet,
>> struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
>> {
>> + struct sctp_chunk *lchunk;
>> sctp_xmit_t retval = SCTP_XMIT_OK;
>> __u16 chunk_len = WORD_ROUND(ntohs(chunk->chunk_hdr->length));
>>
>> @@ -316,7 +318,31 @@ sctp_xmit_t sctp_packet_append_chunk(struct
>sctp_packet *packet,
>> packet->has_cookie_echo = 1;
>> break;
>>
>> + case SCTP_CID_ERROR:
>> + if (chunk->subh.err_hdr->cause& SCTP_ERROR_INV_STRM)
>> + packet->has_isi_err = 1;
>> + break;
>> +
>> case SCTP_CID_SACK:
>> + /* RFC 4960
>> + * 6.5 Stream Identifier and Stream Sequence Number
>> + * The endpoint may bundle the ERROR chunk in the same
>> + * packet as the SACK as long as the ERROR follows the SACK.
>> + */
>> + if (packet->has_isi_err) {
>> + if (list_is_singular(&packet->chunk_list))
>> + list_add(&chunk->list,&packet->chunk_list);
>> + else {
>> + lchunk = list_first_entry(&packet->chunk_list,
>> + struct sctp_chunk, list);
>> + list_add(&chunk->list,&lchunk->list);
>> + }
>>
>And I should clarify the above judgment code.
>AFAIK, there should be two cases for the bundling when invalid stream
>identifier error happens:
>1). COOKIE_ACK ERROR SACK
>2). ERROR SACK
>So I need to deal with the two cases differently.
>

Sorry but I just don't buy that the above are the only 2 cases. What if there are addip chunks as well? What if there are some other extensions also. This code has to be generic enough to handle any condition.

- vlad

>
>Thanks,
>Xufeng Zhang
>> + packet->size += chunk_len;
>> + chunk->transport = packet->transport;
>> + packet->has_sack = 1;
>> + goto finish;
>> + }
>> +
>> packet->has_sack = 1;
>> break;
>>
>>


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