netdev - Re: [net 1/1] tipc: remove joining group member from congested list

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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:57:11 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@...csson.com,
        tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au, hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au,
        canh.d.luu@...tech.com.au, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net 1/1] tipc: remove joining group member from congested list

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.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@...csson.com>

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

Applied, thanks Jon.