Commit 7e3e5d09 authored by Allan Stephens's avatar Allan Stephens Committed by David S. Miller

tipc: Prevent crash when broadcast link cannot send to all nodes

Allow TIPC's broadcast link to continue operation when it is unable
to send a message to all nodes in the cluster.  Previously, the
broadcast link attempted to put the broadcast pseudo-bearer into a
blocked state; however, this caused a crash because the associated
bearer structure is only partially initialized.  Further
investigation has revealed some conceptual problems with blocking
the pseudo-bearer; consequently, this functionality has been
disabled for the time being and the undelivered message is
eventually resent by the broadcast link's existing message
retransmission mechanism (if possible).
Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b02b69c8
......@@ -609,11 +609,13 @@ static int tipc_bcbearer_send(struct sk_buff *buf,
bcbearer->remains = bcbearer->remains_new;
}
/* Unable to reach all targets */
/*
* Unable to reach all targets (indicate success, since currently
* there isn't code in place to properly block & unblock the
* pseudo-bearer used by the broadcast link)
*/
bcbearer->bearer.publ.blocked = 1;
bcl->stats.bearer_congs++;
return 1;
return TIPC_OK;
}
/**
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