dccp ccid-2: Phase out the use of boolean Ack Vector sysctl

This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack
Vector feature, as it now is handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation
(i.e. when CCID-2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled as per
 RFC 4341, 4.).

Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to
crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock /
sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type

	if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector)
		/* ... */
with
	if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL)
		/* ... */

The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature
negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection.
Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child),
so that the test is a valid one.

The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature
negotiation has concluded at the
 * server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives;
 * client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN.

Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been
removed, since
 (a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received;
 (b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e.
     this entry will always be ignored;
 (c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only
     packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks.

There was a FIXME to change the error code when dccp_ackvec_add() fails.
I removed this after finding out that:
 * the check whether ackno < ISN is already made earlier,
 * this Response is likely the 1st packet with an Ackno that the client gets,
 * so when dccp_ackvec_add() fails, the reason is likely not a packet error.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dccp.h b/include/linux/dccp.h
index 60e94438ead..61734e27abb 100644
--- a/include/linux/dccp.h
+++ b/include/linux/dccp.h
@@ -360,7 +360,6 @@ static inline unsigned int dccp_hdr_len(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 #define DCCPF_INITIAL_SEQUENCE_WINDOW		100
 #define DCCPF_INITIAL_ACK_RATIO			2
 #define DCCPF_INITIAL_CCID			DCCPC_CCID2
-#define DCCPF_INITIAL_SEND_ACK_VECTOR		1
 /* FIXME: for now we're default to 1 but it should really be 0 */
 #define DCCPF_INITIAL_SEND_NDP_COUNT		1
 
@@ -370,13 +369,11 @@ static inline unsigned int dccp_hdr_len(const struct sk_buff *skb)
   * Will be used to pass the state from dccp_request_sock to dccp_sock.
   *
   * @dccpms_sequence_window - Sequence Window Feature (section 7.5.2)
-  * @dccpms_send_ack_vector - Send Ack Vector Feature (section 11.5)
   * @dccpms_pending - List of features being negotiated
   * @dccpms_conf -
   */
 struct dccp_minisock {
 	__u64			dccpms_sequence_window;
-	__u8			dccpms_send_ack_vector;
 	struct list_head	dccpms_pending;
 	struct list_head	dccpms_conf;
 };