netdev - Re: [net 1/1] tipc: fix infinite loop when dumping link monitor summary

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Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:49:05 -0400 (EDT)
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: fix infinite loop when dumping link monitor
 summary

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:58:27 +0200

> From: Tung Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au>
> 
> When configuring the number of used bearers to MAX_BEARER and issuing
> command "tipc link monitor summary", the command enters infinite loop
> in user space.
> 
> This issue happens because function tipc_nl_node_dump_monitor() returns
> the wrong 'prev_bearer' value when all potential monitors have been
> scanned.
> 
> The correct behavior is to always try to scan all monitors until either
> the netlink message is full, in which case we return the bearer identity
> of the affected monitor, or we continue through the whole bearer array
> until we can return MAX_BEARERS. This solution also caters for the case
> where there may be gaps in the bearer array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied.