This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tcp-ipv4-initialize-unicast_sock-sk_pacing_rate.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Feb 12 09:26:08 HKT 2015 From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 05:47:11 -0800 Subject: tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> [ Upstream commit 811230cd853d62f09ed0addd0ce9a1b9b0e13fb5 ] When I added sk_pacing_rate field, I forgot to initialize its value in the per cpu unicast_sock used in ip_send_unicast_reply() This means that for sch_fq users, RST packets, or ACK packets sent on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets might be sent to slowly or even dropped once we reach the per flow limit. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Fixes: 95bd09eb2750 ("tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c @@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct inet_sock, .sk_wmem_alloc = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .sk_allocation = GFP_ATOMIC, .sk_flags = (1UL << SOCK_USE_WRITE_QUEUE), + .sk_pacing_rate = ~0U, }, .pmtudisc = IP_PMTUDISC_WANT, .uc_ttl = -1, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eduma...@google.com are queue-3.14/tcp-ipv4-initialize-unicast_sock-sk_pacing_rate.patch queue-3.14/ip-zero-sockaddr-returned-on-error-queue.patch queue-3.14/ping-fix-race-in-free-in-receive-path.patch queue-3.14/net-rps-fix-cpu-unplug.patch queue-3.14/netxen-fix-netxen_nic_poll-logic.patch queue-3.14/ipv4-tcp-get-rid-of-ugly-unicast_sock.patch queue-3.14/bnx2x-fix-napi-poll-return-value-for-repoll.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html