netdev - Re: [PATCH] tipc: disconnect socket directly after probe failure

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Message-Id: <20150610.220544.1966331266437134539.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:05:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	erik.hugne@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: disconnect socket directly after probe failure

From: <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 17:27:12 +0200

> From: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
> 
> If the TIPC connection timer expires in a probing state, a
> self abort message is supposed to be generated and delivered
> to the local socket. This is currently broken, and the abort
> message is actually sent out to the peer node with invalid
> addressing information. This will cause the link to enter
> a constant retransmission state and eventually reset.
> We fix this by removing the self-abort message creation and
> tear down connection immediately instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied, thank you.
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