tipc: Ignore broadcast acknowledgements that are out-of-range
authorAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:26:24 +0000 (15:26 -0400)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:33:53 +0000 (11:33 -0500)
commit3655959143ebf1fd32e28a448d204be2f7f13e99
tree441e42f4e55fedf7d262a3d43ba356a1598f36c5
parent10745cd5990542447268f60078133df8b1ee960b
tipc: Ignore broadcast acknowledgements that are out-of-range

Adds checks to TIPC's broadcast link so that it ignores any
acknowledgement message containing a sequence number that does not
correspond to an unacknowledged message currently in the broadcast
link's transmit queue.

This change prevents the broadcast link from becoming stalled if a
newly booted node receives stale broadcast link acknowledgement
information from another node that has not yet fully synchronized
its end of the broadcast link to reflect the current state of the
new node's end.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
net/tipc/bcast.c
net/tipc/link.c
net/tipc/link.h
net/tipc/node.c