linux/net
Jon Paul Maloy b9d4c33935 tipc: remove 'has_redundant_link' flag from STATE link protocol messages
The flag 'has_redundant_link' is defined only in RESET and ACTIVATE
protocol messages. Due to an ambiguity in the protocol specification it
is currently also transferred in STATE messages. Its value is used to
initialize a link state variable, 'permit_changeover', which is used
to inhibit futile link failover attempts when it is known that the
peer node has no working links at the moment, although the local node
may still think it has one.

The fact that 'has_redundant_link' incorrectly is read from STATE
messages has the effect that 'permit_changeover' sometimes gets a wrong
value, and permanently blocks any links from being re-established. Such
failures can only occur in in dual-link systems, and are extremely rare.
This bug seems to have always been present in the code.

Furthermore, since commit b4b5610223
("tipc: Ensure both nodes recognize loss of contact between them"),
the 'permit_changeover' field serves no purpose any more. The task of
enforcing 'lost contact' cycles at both peer endpoints is now taken
by a new mechanism, using the flags WAIT_NODE_DOWN and WAIT_PEER_DOWN
in struct tipc_node to abort unnecessary failover attempts.

We therefore remove the 'has_redundant_link' flag from STATE messages,
as well as the now redundant 'permit_changeover' variable.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-07 18:44:25 -05:00
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9p Nothing really exciting: some groundwork for changing virtio endian, and 2013-11-15 13:28:47 +09:00
802 neigh: convert parms to an array 2013-12-09 20:56:12 -05:00
8021q vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload. 2013-12-31 16:23:35 -05:00
appletalk net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
atm net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
ax25 net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
batman-adv Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
bridge Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
caif net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
can can: gw: remove obsolete checks 2013-12-21 14:56:21 +01:00
ceph net: 8021q/bluetooth/bridge/can/ceph: Remove extern from function prototypes 2013-10-19 19:12:11 -04:00
core net-gre-gro: Add GRE support to the GRO stack 2014-01-07 16:21:31 -05:00
dcb net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:57 -05:00
dccp Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
decnet Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2013-12-19 18:37:49 -05:00
dns_resolver net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:57 -05:00
dsa
ethernet ethernet: use likely() for common Ethernet encap 2013-09-30 21:52:53 -07:00
hsr net/hsr: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code 2013-12-17 16:32:30 -05:00
ieee802154 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
ipv4 net-gre-gro: Add GRE support to the GRO stack 2014-01-07 16:21:31 -05:00
ipv6 net-gre-gro: Add GRE support to the GRO stack 2014-01-07 16:21:31 -05:00
ipx net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
irda net/irda: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:57 -05:00
iucv net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
key xfrm: export verify_userspi_info for pkfey and netlink interface 2013-12-16 12:54:02 +01:00
l2tp Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2013-12-19 18:37:49 -05:00
lapb net/lapb: re-send packets on timeout 2013-09-23 16:52:45 -04:00
llc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2014-01-01 15:39:56 -05:00
mac802154 mac802154: fix following checkpath.pl warning Prefer pr_warn(... to pr_warning(... 2013-12-22 18:53:08 -05:00
mpls ipip: add GSO/TSO support 2013-10-19 19:36:19 -04:00
netfilter Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch 2014-01-06 19:48:38 -05:00
netlabel netlabel: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch 2014-01-06 19:48:38 -05:00
netrom net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
nfc nfc: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-11 10:56:21 -05:00
openvswitch Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch 2014-01-06 19:48:38 -05:00
packet packet: fix "foo * bar" and "(foo*)" problems 2013-12-31 13:38:41 -05:00
phonet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-11-19 15:50:47 -08:00
rds rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device 2013-12-27 12:33:58 -05:00
rfkill rfkill: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-11 10:56:21 -05:00
rose Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
rxrpc net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
sched Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
sctp Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
sunrpc NFS client bugfixes 2013-12-05 13:05:48 -08:00
tipc tipc: remove 'has_redundant_link' flag from STATE link protocol messages 2014-01-07 18:44:25 -05:00
unix Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-12-18 16:42:06 -05:00
vmw_vsock net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
wimax wimax: remove dead code 2013-11-21 13:09:42 -05:00
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
x25 x25: convert printks to pr_<level> 2013-12-09 20:24:18 -05:00
xfrm net: xfrm: xfrm_policy: fix inline not at beginning of declaration 2014-01-07 18:34:00 -05:00
compat.c net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error 2013-11-29 16:12:52 -05:00
Kconfig net: netprio: rename config to be more consistent with cgroup configs 2014-01-03 23:41:42 +01:00
Makefile net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0) 2013-11-03 23:20:14 -05:00
nonet.c
socket.c net: handle error more gracefully in socketpair() 2013-12-10 22:24:13 -05:00
sysctl_net.c net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid 2013-10-07 15:57:56 -04:00