[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] O2net: Disallow o2net accept connection request from itself.

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:00:26AM +0800, Tristan Ye wrote:
> Currently, o2net_accept_one() is allowed to accept a connection from
> listening node itself, such a fake connection will not be successfully
> established due to no handshake detected afterwards, and later end up
> with triggering connecting worker in a loop.
> 
> We're going to fix this by treating such connection request as 'invalid',
> since we've got no chance of requesting connection from a node to itself
> in a OCFS2 cluster.
> 
> The fix doesn't hurt user's scan for o2net-listener, it always gets a
> successful connection from userpace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>

This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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