4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2a57f182420174c7fd4b19db979a2d135231a963 ] The function for checking if there is an node address conflict is supposed to return a suggestion for a new address if it finds a conflict, and zero otherwise. But in case the peer being checked is previously unknown it does instead return a "suggestion" for the checked address itself. This results in a DSC_TRIAL_FAIL_MSG being sent unecessarily to the peer, and sometimes makes the trial period starting over again. Fixes: 25b0b9c4e835 ("tipc: handle collisions of 32-bit node address hash values") Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/node.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/tipc/node.c +++ b/net/tipc/node.c @@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static u32 tipc_node_suggest_addr(struct } /* tipc_node_try_addr(): Check if addr can be used by peer, suggest other if not + * Returns suggested address if any, otherwise 0 */ u32 tipc_node_try_addr(struct net *net, u8 *id, u32 addr) { @@ -798,12 +799,14 @@ u32 tipc_node_try_addr(struct net *net, if (n) { addr = n->addr; tipc_node_put(n); + return addr; } - /* Even this node may be in trial phase */ + + /* Even this node may be in conflict */ if (tn->trial_addr == addr) return tipc_node_suggest_addr(net, addr); - return addr; + return 0; } void tipc_node_check_dest(struct net *net, u32 addr,