Adding upstream version 6.9.7.upstream/6.9.7

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index d1ad20ce1c..f96f68cf79 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -483,8 +483,12 @@ static bool tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out(const struct sock *sk,
 {
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	const int timeout = TCP_RTO_MAX * 2;
-	u32 rcv_delta;
+	s32 rcv_delta;
 
+	/* Note: timer interrupt might have been delayed by at least one jiffy,
+	 * and tp->rcv_tstamp might very well have been written recently.
+	 * rcv_delta can thus be negative.
+	 */
 	rcv_delta = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_timeout - tp->rcv_tstamp;
 	if (rcv_delta <= timeout)
 		return false;