tipc: fix failover problem

We see the following scenario:
1) Link endpoint B on node 1 discovers that its peer endpoint is gone.
   Since there is a second working link, failover procedure is started.
2) Link endpoint A on node 1 sends a FAILOVER message to peer endpoint
   A on node 2. The node item 1->2 goes to state FAILINGOVER.
3) Linke endpoint A/2 receives the failover, and is supposed to take
   down its parallell link endpoint B/2, while producing a FAILOVER
   message to send back to A/1.
4) However, B/2 has already been deleted, so no FAILOVER message can
   created.
5) Node 1->2 remains in state FAILINGOVER forever, refusing to receive
   any messages that can bring B/1 up again. We are left with a non-
   redundant link between node 1 and 2.

We fix this with letting endpoint A/2 build a dummy FAILOVER message
to send to back to A/1, so that the situation can be resolved.

Signed-off-by: LUU Duc Canh <canh.d.luu@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/link.c b/net/tipc/link.c
index 26cc033ee167..4ed650ce6e61 100644
--- a/net/tipc/link.c
+++ b/net/tipc/link.c
@@ -410,6 +410,11 @@ char *tipc_link_name(struct tipc_link *l)
 	return l->name;
 }
 
+u32 tipc_link_state(struct tipc_link *l)
+{
+	return l->state;
+}
+
 /**
  * tipc_link_create - create a new link
  * @n: pointer to associated node
@@ -1385,6 +1390,36 @@ static void tipc_link_build_proto_msg(struct tipc_link *l, int mtyp, bool probe,
 	__skb_queue_tail(xmitq, skb);
 }
 
+void tipc_link_create_dummy_tnl_msg(struct tipc_link *l,
+				    struct sk_buff_head *xmitq)
+{
+	u32 onode = tipc_own_addr(l->net);
+	struct tipc_msg *hdr, *ihdr;
+	struct sk_buff_head tnlq;
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	u32 dnode = l->addr;
+
+	skb_queue_head_init(&tnlq);
+	skb = tipc_msg_create(TUNNEL_PROTOCOL, FAILOVER_MSG,
+			      INT_H_SIZE, BASIC_H_SIZE,
+			      dnode, onode, 0, 0, 0);
+	if (!skb) {
+		pr_warn("%sunable to create tunnel packet\n", link_co_err);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	hdr = buf_msg(skb);
+	msg_set_msgcnt(hdr, 1);
+	msg_set_bearer_id(hdr, l->peer_bearer_id);
+
+	ihdr = (struct tipc_msg *)msg_data(hdr);
+	tipc_msg_init(onode, ihdr, TIPC_LOW_IMPORTANCE, TIPC_DIRECT_MSG,
+		      BASIC_H_SIZE, dnode);
+	msg_set_errcode(ihdr, TIPC_ERR_NO_PORT);
+	__skb_queue_tail(&tnlq, skb);
+	tipc_link_xmit(l, &tnlq, xmitq);
+}
+
 /* tipc_link_tnl_prepare(): prepare and return a list of tunnel packets
  * with contents of the link's transmit and backlog queues.
  */