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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: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allan Stephens 14 年之前
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      net/tipc/bcast.c

+ 6 - 4
net/tipc/bcast.c

@@ -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;
 }
 
 /**