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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bridge: message age needs to increase, not
 decrease.
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:57:57 -0500 (EST)
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From: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:12:19 +0100

> commit bridge: send proper message_age in config BPDU
> added this gem:
>   bpdu.message_age = (jiffies - root->designated_age)
>   p->designated_age = jiffies + bpdu->message_age;
> Notice how bpdu->message_age is negated when reassigned to
> bpdu.message_age. This causes message age to decrease breaking the
> STP protocol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>

Applied.