tree 5d4281f3fbb68256211eaa2d39e45dc85c0874d8
parent e1d6fbc3dedbb463fc79b48ddb05ab6b20fd088a
author Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> 1373379424 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1373399396 -0700

net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress

This fix has been proposed originally by Vlad Yasevich. He says:

  When SCTP makes forward progress (receives a SACK that acks new chunks,
  renegs, or answeres 0-window probes) or when HB-ACK arrives, mark
  the route as confirmed so we don't unnecessarily send NUD probes.

Having a simple SCTP client/server that exchange data chunks every 1sec,
without this patch ARP requests are sent periodically every 40-60sec.
With this fix applied, an ARP request is only done once right at the
"session" beginning. Also, when clearing the related ARP cache entry
manually during the session, a new request is correctly done. I have
only "backported" this to net-next and tested that it works, so full
credit goes to Vlad.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>