From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:07:11 +0100
> In commit 2f487712b893 ("tipc: guarantee that group broadcast doesn't
> bypass group unicast") we introduced a mechanism that requires the first
> (replicated) broadcast sent after a unicast to be acknowledged by all
> receivers before permitting sending of the next (true) broadcast.
>
> The counter for keeping track of the number of acknowledges to expect
> is based on the tipc_group::member_cnt variable. But this misses that
> some of the known members may not be ready for reception, and will never
> acknowledge the message, either because they haven't fully joined the
> group or because they are leaving the group. Such members are identified
> by not fulfilling the condition tested for in the function
> tipc_group_is_enabled().
>
> We now set the counter for the actual number of acks to receive at the
> moment the message is sent, by just counting the number of recipients
> satisfying the tipc_group_is_enabled() test.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks Jon.
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