tipc: purge backlog queue counters when broadcast link is reset
authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:44:44 +0000 (09:44 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:43:02 +0000 (16:43 -0700)
commit7d967b673c2ff992205be051ffebc39e1a323400
treed6edc29ed8d4d0d4314e7249486a48b4f2ae5267
parent011cb197a84ed547c2b6b12a86adbeec1be0fdaf
tipc: purge backlog queue counters when broadcast link is reset

In commit 1f66d161ab3d8b518903fa6c3f9c1f48d6919e74
("tipc: introduce starvation free send algorithm")
we introduced a counter per priority level for buffers
in the link backlog queue. We also introduced a new
function tipc_link_purge_backlog(), to reset these
counters to zero when the link is reset.

Unfortunately, we missed to call this function when
the broadcast link is reset, with the result that the
values of these counters might be permanently skewed
when new nodes are attached. This may in the worst case
lead to permananent, but spurious, broadcast link
congestion, where no broadcast packets can be sent at
all.

We fix this bug with this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/tipc/bcast.c
net/tipc/link.c
net/tipc/link.h