From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:00:54 +0200

> From: LUU Duc Canh <[email protected]>
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

Applied.


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