netdev - Re: [net 1/1] tipc: fix lost member events bug

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Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:17:05 -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: fix lost member events bug

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:34:16 +0100

> Group messages are not supposed to be returned to sender when the
> destination socket disappears. This is done correctly for regular
> traffic messages, by setting the 'dest_droppable' bit in the header.
> But we forget to do that in group protocol messages. This has the effect
> that such messages may sometimes bounce back to the sender, be perceived
> as a legitimate peer message, and wreak general havoc for the rest of
> the session. In particular, we have seen that a member in state LEAVING
> may go back to state RECLAIMED or REMITTED, hence causing suppression
> of an otherwise expected 'member down' event to the user.
> 
> We fix this by setting the 'dest_droppable' bit even in group protocol
> messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied.