Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
tipc: correct settings of broadcast link state
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Since commit 5266698 ("tipc: let broadcast packet
reception use new link receive function") the broadcast send
link state was meant to always be set to LINK_ESTABLISHED, since
we don't need this link to follow the regular link FSM rules. It
was also the intention that this state anyway shouldn't impact
the run-time working state of the link, since the latter in
reality is controlled by the number of registered peers.

We have now discovered that this assumption is not quite correct.
If the broadcast link is reset because of too many retransmissions,
its state will inadvertently go to LINK_RESETTING, and never go
back to LINK_ESTABLISHED, because the LINK_FAILURE event was not
anticipated. This will work well once, but if it happens a second
time, the reset on a link in LINK_RESETTING has has no effect, and
neither the broadcast link nor the unicast links will go down as
they should.

Furthermore, it is confusing that the management tool shows that
this link is in UP state when that obviously isn't the case.

We now ensure that this state strictly follows the true working
state of the link. The state is set to LINK_ESTABLISHED when
the number of peers is non-zero, and to LINK_RESET otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
  • Loading branch information
Jon Paul Maloy authored and davem330 committed Nov 20, 2015
1 parent 52dfc83 commit 9a65083
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions net/tipc/link.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ void tipc_link_add_bc_peer(struct tipc_link *snd_l,

snd_l->ackers++;
rcv_l->acked = snd_l->snd_nxt - 1;
snd_l->state = LINK_ESTABLISHED;
tipc_link_build_bc_init_msg(uc_l, xmitq);
}

Expand All @@ -206,6 +207,7 @@ void tipc_link_remove_bc_peer(struct tipc_link *snd_l,
rcv_l->state = LINK_RESET;
if (!snd_l->ackers) {
tipc_link_reset(snd_l);
snd_l->state = LINK_RESET;
__skb_queue_purge(xmitq);
}
}
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 9a65083

Please sign in to comment.