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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 stable 3.5] batman-adv: Fix broadcast
 packet CRC calculation
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To: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>, stable@vger.kernel.org

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 02:05:27AM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Linus L=FCssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
>=20
> commit 7f112af40fecf5399b61e69ffc6b55a9d82789f7 upstream.
>=20
> So far the crc16 checksum for a batman-adv broadcast data packet, received
> on a batman-adv hard interface, was calculated over zero bytes of its
> content leading to many incoming broadcast data packets wrongly being
> dropped (60-80% packet loss).
>=20
> This patch fixes this issue by calculating the crc16 over the actual,
> complete broadcast payload.
>=20
> The issue is a regression introduced by
> ("batman-adv: add broadcast duplicate check").
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Linus L=FCssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
> Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
> ---
>=20
> Sorry, but I made a mistake in backporting the patch to 3.5. Now it's ok.
> Thanks,

3.5 is end-of-life, so I can't take any patches for it anymore, sorry.
In the future, take a look at the front page of www.kernel.org, it shows
what trees are still "alive" and which are end-of-life.

thanks,

greg k-h