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From: =?UTF-8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:44:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [TCP]: Re-place highest_sack check to a more robust position
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I previously added checking to position that is rather poor as
state has already been adjusted quite a bit. Re-placing it above
all state changes should be more robust though the return should
never ever get executed regardless of its place :-).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index cbb83acd830a..94c80113df7e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1718,6 +1718,10 @@ static void tcp_retrans_try_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int m
 		BUG_ON(tcp_skb_pcount(skb) != 1 ||
 		       tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb) != 1);
 
+		if (WARN_ON(tp->sacked_out &&
+		    (TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->seq == tp->highest_sack)))
+			return;
+
 		/* Ok.	We will be able to collapse the packet. */
 		tcp_unlink_write_queue(next_skb, sk);
 
@@ -1734,10 +1738,6 @@ static void tcp_retrans_try_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int m
 		/* Update sequence range on original skb. */
 		TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq = TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->end_seq;
 
-		if (WARN_ON(tp->sacked_out &&
-		    (TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->seq == tp->highest_sack)))
-			return;
-
 		/* Merge over control information. */
 		flags |= TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->flags; /* This moves PSH/FIN etc. over */
 		TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags = flags;
-- 
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