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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jon.maloy@ericsson.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@ericsson.com,
	tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au, hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au,
	canh.d.luu@dektech.com.au, ying.xue@windriver.com,
	tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net 1/1] tipc: remove joining group member from congested list
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:57:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171220.145711.1010973633205606282.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1513764195-7731-1-git-send-email-jon.maloy@ericsson.com>

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:03:15 +0100

> When we receive a JOIN message from a peer member, the message may
> contain an advertised window value ADV_IDLE that permits removing the
> member in question from the tipc_group::congested list. However, since
> the removal has been made conditional on that the advertised window is
> *not* ADV_IDLE, we miss this case. This has the effect that a sender
> sometimes may enter a state of permanent, false, broadcast congestion.
> 
> We fix this by unconditinally removing the member from the congested
> list before calling tipc_member_update(), which might potentially sort
> it into the list again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>

I bet this bug wasn't fun to track down.

Applied, thanks Jon.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-20 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-20 10:03 [net 1/1] tipc: remove joining group member from congested list Jon Maloy
2017-12-20 19:57 ` David Miller [this message]

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