On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 02:05:27AM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Linus Lüssing <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 7f112af40fecf5399b61e69ffc6b55a9d82789f7 upstream.
> 
> So far the crc16 checksum for a batman-adv broadcast data packet, received
> on a batman-adv hard interface, was calculated over zero bytes of its
> content leading to many incoming broadcast data packets wrongly being
> dropped (60-80% packet loss).
> 
> This patch fixes this issue by calculating the crc16 over the actual,
> complete broadcast payload.
> 
> The issue is a regression introduced by
> ("batman-adv: add broadcast duplicate check").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Sorry, but I made a mistake in backporting the patch to 3.5. Now it's ok.
> Thanks,

3.5 is end-of-life, so I can't take any patches for it anymore, sorry.
In the future, take a look at the front page of www.kernel.org, it shows
what trees are still "alive" and which are end-of-life.

thanks,

greg k-h

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