sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD

There are 3 timers described in rfc8899#section-5.1.1:

  PROBE_TIMER, PMTU_RAISE_TIMER, CONFIRMATION_TIMER

This patches adds a 'probe_timer' in transport, and it works as either
PROBE_TIMER or PMTU_RAISE_TIMER. At most time, it works as PROBE_TIMER
and expires every a 'probe_interval' time to send the HB probe packet.
When transport pl enters COMPLETE state, it works as PMTU_RAISE_TIMER
and expires in 'probe_interval * 30' time to go back to SEARCH state
and do searching again.

SCTP HB is an acknowledged packet, CONFIRMATION_TIMER is not needed.

The timer will start when transport pl enters BASE state and stop
when it enters DISABLED state.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Xin Long
2021-06-22 14:04:51 -04:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d9e2e410ae
commit 92548ec2f1
10 changed files with 109 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static const char *const sctp_timer_tbl[] = {
"TIMEOUT_T5_SHUTDOWN_GUARD",
"TIMEOUT_HEARTBEAT",
"TIMEOUT_RECONF",
"TIMEOUT_PROBE",
"TIMEOUT_SACK",
"TIMEOUT_AUTOCLOSE",
};