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authorAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>2011-10-27 16:43:09 -0400
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2012-02-06 16:59:19 -0500
commit63e7f1ac2855ba56f15d8189694ca9bd16ae4107 (patch)
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parentb76b27cad5ade1d483d4b94df6b35976bccf1055 (diff)
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tipc: Prevent loss of fragmented messages over broadcast link
Modifies broadcast link so that an incoming fragmented message is not lost if reassembly cannot begin because there currently is no buffer big enough to hold the entire reassembled message. The broadcast link now ignores the first fragment completely, which causes the sending node to retransmit the first fragment so that reassembly can be re-attempted. Previously, the sender would have had no reason to retransmit the 1st fragment, so we would never have a chance to re-try the allocation. To do this cleanly without duplicaton, a new bclink_accept_pkt() function is introduced. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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