From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Schulz Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:51:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: ppp: reset nextseq counter when enabling SC_MULTILINK Message-Id: <53C4F987.1040401@kristov.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras From: Christoph Schulz If using a demand-dialled PPP unit for a PPP multilink master, the pppd daemon needs to reset the sequence counter between two connections. This allows the daemon to reuse the PPP unit instead of destroying and recreating it. As there is no API to reset the counter, this patch resets the counter whenever the SC_MULTILINK flag is set. Signed-off-by: Christoph Schulz --- Note that the stock pppd does not yet support multilink PPP over a demand-dialled interface. I used a locally patched version for testing. diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 91d6c12..a0aae43 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -661,6 +661,8 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) break; ppp_lock(ppp); cflags = ppp->flags & ~val; + if (!(ppp->flags & SC_MULTILINK) && (val & SC_MULTILINK)) + ppp->nextseq = 0; ppp->flags = val & SC_FLAG_BITS; ppp_unlock(ppp); if (cflags & SC_CCP_OPEN)