netdev - Re: pull request [net]: batman-adv 20140721

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:19:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	antonio@...hcoding.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: pull request [net]: batman-adv 20140721

From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>
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.
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