sctp: add support for Primary Path Switchover

This is a new feature defined in section 5 of rfc7829: "Primary Path
Switchover". By introducing a new tunable parameter:

  Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR)

The primary path will be changed to another active path when the path
error counter on the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP
sender is allowed to continue data transmission on a new working path
even when the old primary destination address becomes active again".

This patch is to add this tunable parameter, 'ps_retrans' per netns,
sock, asoc and transport. It also allows a user to change ps_retrans
per netns by sysctl, and ps_retrans per sock/asoc/transport will be
initialized with it.

The check will be done in sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike() when this
feature is enabled.

Note this feature is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns
as 0xffff by default, and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans'
when changing by sysctl.

v3->v4:
  - add define SCTP_PS_RETRANS_MAX 0xffff, and use it on extra2 of
    sysctl 'ps_retrans'.
  - add a new entry for ps_retrans on ip-sysctl.txt.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sctp/constants.h b/include/net/sctp/constants.h
index e88b77a34cb1..15b4d9aec7ff 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/constants.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/constants.h
@@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ enum {
 };
 #define SCTP_PF_EXPOSE_MAX	SCTP_PF_EXPOSE_ENABLE
 
+#define SCTP_PS_RETRANS_MAX	0xffff
+
 /* These return values describe the success or failure of a number of
  * routines which form the lower interface to SCTP_outqueue.
  */
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index 9a43738774d7..3cc913f328cd 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ struct sctp_sock {
 	__u32 flowlabel;
 	__u8  dscp;
 
-	int pf_retrans;
+	__u16 pf_retrans;
+	__u16 ps_retrans;
 
 	/* The initial Path MTU to use for new associations. */
 	__u32 pathmtu;
@@ -897,7 +898,9 @@ struct sctp_transport {
 	 * and will be initialized from the assocs value.  This can be changed
 	 * using the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_THLDS socket option
 	 */
-	int pf_retrans;
+	__u16 pf_retrans;
+	/* Used for primary path switchover. */
+	__u16 ps_retrans;
 	/* PMTU	      : The current known path MTU.  */
 	__u32 pathmtu;
 
@@ -1773,7 +1776,9 @@ struct sctp_association {
 	 * and will be initialized from the assocs value.  This can be
 	 * changed using the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_THLDS socket option
 	 */
-	int pf_retrans;
+	__u16 pf_retrans;
+	/* Used for primary path switchover. */
+	__u16 ps_retrans;
 
 	/* Maximum number of times the endpoint will retransmit INIT  */
 	__u16 max_init_attempts;