sctp: update order of adjustments of partial_bytes_acked and cwnd
RFC4960 Errata 3.12 says RFC4960 is unclear about the order of
adjustments applied to partial_bytes_acked and cwnd in the congestion
avoidance phase, and that the actual order should be:
partial_bytes_acked is reset to (partial_bytes_acked - cwnd). Next, cwnd
is increased by MTU.
We were first increasing cwnd, and then subtracting the new value pba,
which leads to a different result as pba is smaller than what it should
and could cause cwnd to not grow as much.
See-also: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-errata-01#section-3.12
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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