Re: [PATCH] tcp_nv: fix division by zero in tcpnv_acked()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Nov 01 2017 - 10:17:49 EST


On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 16:32 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Average RTT could become zero. This happened in real life at least twice.
> This patch treats zero as 1us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv4/tcp_nv.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_nv.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_nv.c
> index 1ff73982e28c..125fc1450b01 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_nv.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_nv.c
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static void tcpnv_acked(struct sock *sk, const struct ack_sample *sample)
>
> /* rate in 100's bits per second */
> rate64 = ((u64)sample->in_flight) * 8000000;
> - rate = (u32)div64_u64(rate64, (u64)(avg_rtt * 100));
> + rate = (u32)div64_u64(rate64, (u64)(avg_rtt ?: 1) * 100);
>
> /* Remember the maximum rate seen during this RTT
> * Note: It may be more than one RTT. This function should be
>

BTW, this div64_u64() could be replaced by a u32 divide (aka do_div()),
slightly less expensive.


rate64 = ((u64)sample->in_flight) * 80000;
do_div(rate64, avg_rtt ?: 1);
rate = (u32)rate64;