From 51ce7ec92187b22ab1598987bb5f9776f6e0ebad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick McHardy Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:51:47 -0700 Subject: garp: retry sending JoinIn messages after allocation failures Increase reliability by retrying to send JoinIn messages after memory allocation failures on each TRANSMIT_PDU event until it succeeds. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/802/garp.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/802') diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c index 3b78f7b74fd4..1dcb0660c49d 100644 --- a/net/802/garp.c +++ b/net/802/garp.c @@ -323,7 +323,10 @@ static void garp_attr_event(struct garp_applicant *app, case GARP_ACTION_NONE: break; case GARP_ACTION_S_JOIN_IN: - garp_pdu_append_attr(app, attr, GARP_JOIN_IN); + /* When appending the attribute fails, don't update state in + * order to retry on next TRANSMIT_PDU event. */ + if (garp_pdu_append_attr(app, attr, GARP_JOIN_IN) < 0) + return; break; case GARP_ACTION_S_LEAVE_EMPTY: garp_pdu_append_attr(app, attr, GARP_LEAVE_EMPTY); -- cgit v1.2.3