It seems that trivial reset of pcount to one was not sufficient
in tcp_retransmit_skb. Multiple counters experience a positive
miscount when skb's pcount gets lowered without the necessary
adjustments (depending on skb's sacked bits which exactly), at
worst a packets_out miscount can crash at RTO if the write queue
is empty!
Triggering this requires mss change, so bidir tcp or mtu probe or
like.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Tested-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>