From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: pull request [net]: batman-adv 20140721 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140721.201937.2036288525192398014.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1405929211-30187-1-git-send-email-antonio@meshcoding.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org To: antonio@meshcoding.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40655 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095AbaGVD1E (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:27:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1405929211-30187-1-git-send-email-antonio@meshcoding.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Antonio Quartulli Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:53:29 +0200 > here you have two fixes that we have been testing for quite some time > (this is why they arrived a bit late in the rc cycle). > > Patch 1) ensures that BLA packets get dropped and not forwarded to the > mesh even if they reach batman-adv within QinQ frames. Forwarding them > into the mesh means messing up with the TT database of other nodes which > can generate all kind of unexpected behaviours during route computation. > > Patch 2) avoids a couple of race conditions triggered upon fast VLAN > deletion-addition. Such race conditions are pretty dangerous because > they not only create inconsistencies in the TT database of the nodes > in the network, but such scenario is also unrecoverable (unless > nodes are rebooted). ... > git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge.git tags/batman-adv-fix-for-davem Pulled, thanks Antonio.