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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't invalidate SN on discovery failure

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On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 14:13 -0700, Alexis Green wrote:
> From: Jesse Jones <jjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The 2012 spec mentions that path SNs can be invalid when created (see
> section 13.10.8.4 table 13-9) but AFAICT never talks about invalidating
> SNs. Which makes sense: if we have figured out the path to a target at a
> certain SN then we want to remember that fact. Failing to do so can lead
> to routing loops because if we don't have a valid SN then we have no way
> of knowing whether an incoming path message leads to or away from the
> target.
> 
> However currently when discovery fails we zero out mpath->flags which
> clears MESH_PATH_SN_VALID. This patch fixes that so that only the
> discovery relevant flags are cleared.

Applied; I fixed the indentation a bit.

Also, please mention "mesh" in the future in the subject of your
patches, it makes it easier to pick out.

johannes


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