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<title>linux-toradex.git/net, branch v4.9-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc5' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client</title>
<updated>2016-11-11T17:17:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-11T17:17:10+00:00</published>
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Pull Ceph fixes from Ilya Dryomov:
 "Ceph's -&gt;read_iter() implementation is incompatible with the new
  generic_file_splice_read() code that went into -rc1.  Switch to the
  less efficient default_file_splice_read() for now; the proper fix is
  being held for 4.10.

  We also have a fix for a 4.8 regression and a trival libceph fixup"

* tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc5' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  libceph: initialize last_linger_id with a large integer
  libceph: fix legacy layout decode with pool 0
  ceph: use default file splice read callback
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Pull Ceph fixes from Ilya Dryomov:
 "Ceph's -&gt;read_iter() implementation is incompatible with the new
  generic_file_splice_read() code that went into -rc1.  Switch to the
  less efficient default_file_splice_read() for now; the proper fix is
  being held for 4.10.

  We also have a fix for a 4.8 regression and a trival libceph fixup"

* tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc5' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  libceph: initialize last_linger_id with a large integer
  libceph: fix legacy layout decode with pool 0
  ceph: use default file splice read callback
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.9-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs</title>
<updated>2016-11-11T17:15:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-11T17:15:30+00:00</published>
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Pull NFS client bugfixes from Anna Schumaker:
 "Most of these fix regressions in 4.9, and none are going to stable
  this time around.

  Bugfixes:
   - Trim extra slashes in v4 nfs_paths to fix tools that use this
   - Fix a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings
   - Fix suspicious RCU usages
   - Fix Oops when mounting multiple servers at once
   - Suppress a false-positive pNFS error
   - Fix a DMAR failure in NFS over RDMA"

* tag 'nfs-for-4.9-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs:
  xprtrdma: Fix DMAR failure in frwr_op_map() after reconnect
  fs/nfs: Fix used uninitialized warn in nfs4_slot_seqid_in_use()
  NFS: Don't print a pNFS error if we aren't using pNFS
  NFS: Ignore connections that have cl_rpcclient uninitialized
  SUNRPC: Fix suspicious RCU usage
  NFSv4.1: work around -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
  NFS: Trim extra slash in v4 nfs_path
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Pull NFS client bugfixes from Anna Schumaker:
 "Most of these fix regressions in 4.9, and none are going to stable
  this time around.

  Bugfixes:
   - Trim extra slashes in v4 nfs_paths to fix tools that use this
   - Fix a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings
   - Fix suspicious RCU usages
   - Fix Oops when mounting multiple servers at once
   - Suppress a false-positive pNFS error
   - Fix a DMAR failure in NFS over RDMA"

* tag 'nfs-for-4.9-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs:
  xprtrdma: Fix DMAR failure in frwr_op_map() after reconnect
  fs/nfs: Fix used uninitialized warn in nfs4_slot_seqid_in_use()
  NFS: Don't print a pNFS error if we aren't using pNFS
  NFS: Ignore connections that have cl_rpcclient uninitialized
  SUNRPC: Fix suspicious RCU usage
  NFSv4.1: work around -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
  NFS: Trim extra slash in v4 nfs_path
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<entry>
<title>libceph: initialize last_linger_id with a large integer</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T19:13:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>idryomov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-08T14:15:24+00:00</published>
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osdc-&gt;last_linger_id is a counter for lreq-&gt;linger_id, which is used
for watch cookies.  Starting with a large integer should ease the task
of telling apart kernel and userspace clients.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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osdc-&gt;last_linger_id is a counter for lreq-&gt;linger_id, which is used
for watch cookies.  Starting with a large integer should ease the task
of telling apart kernel and userspace clients.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libceph: fix legacy layout decode with pool 0</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T19:13:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan, Zheng</name>
<email>zyan@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-09T08:42:48+00:00</published>
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If your data pool was pool 0, ceph_file_layout_from_legacy()
transform that to -1 unconditionally, which broke upgrades.
We only want do that for a fully zeroed ceph_file_layout,
so that it still maps to a file_layout_t.  If any fields
are set, though, we trust the fl_pgpool to be a valid pool.

Fixes: 7627151ea30bc ("libceph: define new ceph_file_layout structure")
Link: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/17825
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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If your data pool was pool 0, ceph_file_layout_from_legacy()
transform that to -1 unconditionally, which broke upgrades.
We only want do that for a fully zeroed ceph_file_layout,
so that it still maps to a file_layout_t.  If any fields
are set, though, we trust the fl_pgpool to be a valid pool.

Fixes: 7627151ea30bc ("libceph: define new ceph_file_layout structure")
Link: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/17825
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xprtrdma: Fix DMAR failure in frwr_op_map() after reconnect</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T16:04:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-07T21:16:24+00:00</published>
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When a LOCALINV WR is flushed, the frmr is marked STALE, then
frwr_op_unmap_sync DMA-unmaps the frmr's SGL. These STALE frmrs
are then recovered when frwr_op_map hunts for an INVALID frmr to
use.

All other cases that need frmr recovery leave that SGL DMA-mapped.
The FRMR recovery path unconditionally DMA-unmaps the frmr's SGL.

To avoid DMA unmapping the SGL twice for flushed LOCAL_INV WRs,
alter the recovery logic (rather than the hot frwr_op_unmap_sync
path) to distinguish among these cases. This solution also takes
care of the case where multiple LOCAL_INV WRs are issued for the
same rpcrdma_req, some complete successfully, but some are flushed.

Reported-by: Vasco Steinmetz &lt;linux@kyberraum.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vasco Steinmetz &lt;linux@kyberraum.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
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When a LOCALINV WR is flushed, the frmr is marked STALE, then
frwr_op_unmap_sync DMA-unmaps the frmr's SGL. These STALE frmrs
are then recovered when frwr_op_map hunts for an INVALID frmr to
use.

All other cases that need frmr recovery leave that SGL DMA-mapped.
The FRMR recovery path unconditionally DMA-unmaps the frmr's SGL.

To avoid DMA unmapping the SGL twice for flushed LOCAL_INV WRs,
alter the recovery logic (rather than the hot frwr_op_unmap_sync
path) to distinguish among these cases. This solution also takes
care of the case where multiple LOCAL_INV WRs are issued for the
same rpcrdma_req, some complete successfully, but some are flushed.

Reported-by: Vasco Steinmetz &lt;linux@kyberraum.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vasco Steinmetz &lt;linux@kyberraum.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Fix suspicious RCU usage</title>
<updated>2016-11-07T19:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna Schumaker</name>
<email>Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-26T14:33:31+00:00</published>
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We need to hold the rcu_read_lock() when calling rcu_dereference(),
otherwise we can't guarantee that the object being dereferenced still
exists.

Fixes: 39e5d2df ("SUNRPC search xprt switch for sockaddr")
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
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We need to hold the rcu_read_lock() when calling rcu_dereference(),
otherwise we can't guarantee that the object being dereferenced still
exists.

Fixes: 39e5d2df ("SUNRPC search xprt switch for sockaddr")
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfsd-4.9-1' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux</title>
<updated>2016-11-05T03:12:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-05T03:12:10+00:00</published>
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Pull nfsd bugfixes from Bruce Fields:
 "Fixes for some recent regressions including fallout from the vmalloc'd
  stack change (after which we can no longer encrypt stuff on the
  stack)"

* tag 'nfsd-4.9-1' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd: Fix general protection fault in release_lock_stateid()
  svcrdma: backchannel cannot share a page for send and rcv buffers
  sunrpc: fix some missing rq_rbuffer assignments
  sunrpc: don't pass on-stack memory to sg_set_buf
  nfsd: move blocked lock handling under a dedicated spinlock
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Pull nfsd bugfixes from Bruce Fields:
 "Fixes for some recent regressions including fallout from the vmalloc'd
  stack change (after which we can no longer encrypt stuff on the
  stack)"

* tag 'nfsd-4.9-1' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd: Fix general protection fault in release_lock_stateid()
  svcrdma: backchannel cannot share a page for send and rcv buffers
  sunrpc: fix some missing rq_rbuffer assignments
  sunrpc: don't pass on-stack memory to sg_set_buf
  nfsd: move blocked lock handling under a dedicated spinlock
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<entry>
<title>svcrdma: backchannel cannot share a page for send and rcv buffers</title>
<updated>2016-11-01T19:23:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-29T02:22:33+00:00</published>
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The underlying transport releases the page pointed to by rq_buffer
during xprt_rdma_bc_send_request. When the backchannel reply arrives,
rq_rbuffer then points to freed memory.

Fixes: 68778945e46f ('SUNRPC: Separate buffer pointers for RPC ...')
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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The underlying transport releases the page pointed to by rq_buffer
during xprt_rdma_bc_send_request. When the backchannel reply arrives,
rq_rbuffer then points to freed memory.

Fixes: 68778945e46f ('SUNRPC: Separate buffer pointers for RPC ...')
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2016-10-30T03:33:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-30T03:33:20+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Lots of fixes, mostly drivers as is usually the case.

   1) Don't treat zero DMA address as invalid in vmxnet3, from Alexey
      Khoroshilov.

   2) Fix element timeouts in netfilter's nft_dynset, from Anders K.
      Pedersen.

   3) Don't put aead_req crypto struct on the stack in mac80211, from
      Ard Biesheuvel.

   4) Several uninitialized variable warning fixes from Arnd Bergmann.

   5) Fix memory leak in cxgb4, from Colin Ian King.

   6) Fix bpf handling of VLAN header push/pop, from Daniel Borkmann.

   7) Several VRF semantic fixes from David Ahern.

   8) Set skb-&gt;protocol properly in ip6_tnl_xmit(), from Eli Cooper.

   9) Socket needs to be locked in udp_disconnect(), from Eric Dumazet.

  10) Div-by-zero on 32-bit fix in mlx4 driver, from Eugenia Emantayev.

  11) Fix stale link state during failover in NCSCI driver, from Gavin
      Shan.

  12) Fix netdev lower adjacency list traversal, from Ido Schimmel.

  13) Propvide proper handle when emitting notifications of filter
      deletes, from Jamal Hadi Salim.

  14) Memory leaks and big-endian issues in rtl8xxxu, from Jes Sorensen.

  15) Fix DESYNC_FACTOR handling in ipv6, from Jiri Bohac.

  16) Several routing offload fixes in mlxsw driver, from Jiri Pirko.

  17) Fix broadcast sync problem in TIPC, from Jon Paul Maloy.

  18) Validate chunk len before using it in SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  19) Revert a netns locking change that causes regressions, from Paul
      Moore.

  20) Add recursion limit to GRO handling, from Sabrina Dubroca.

  21) GFP_KERNEL in irq context fix in ibmvnic, from Thomas Falcon.

  22) Avoid accessing stale vxlan/geneve socket in data path, from
      Pravin Shelar"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (189 commits)
  geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.
  vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.
  qede: Fix out-of-bound fastpath memory access
  net: phy: dp83848: add dp83822 PHY support
  enic: fix rq disable
  tipc: fix broadcast link synchronization problem
  ibmvnic: Fix missing brackets in init_sub_crq_irqs
  ibmvnic: Fix releasing of sub-CRQ IRQs in interrupt context
  Revert "ibmvnic: Fix releasing of sub-CRQ IRQs in interrupt context"
  arch/powerpc: Update parameters for csum_tcpudp_magic &amp; csum_tcpudp_nofold
  net/mlx4_en: Save slave ethtool stats command
  net/mlx4_en: Fix potential deadlock in port statistics flow
  net/mlx4: Fix firmware command timeout during interrupt test
  net/mlx4_core: Do not access comm channel if it has not yet been initialized
  net/mlx4_en: Fix panic during reboot
  net/mlx4_en: Process all completions in RX rings after port goes up
  net/mlx4_en: Resolve dividing by zero in 32-bit system
  net/mlx4_core: Change the default value of enable_qos
  net/mlx4_core: Avoid setting ports to auto when only one port type is supported
  net/mlx4_core: Fix the resource-type enum in res tracker to conform to FW spec
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Lots of fixes, mostly drivers as is usually the case.

   1) Don't treat zero DMA address as invalid in vmxnet3, from Alexey
      Khoroshilov.

   2) Fix element timeouts in netfilter's nft_dynset, from Anders K.
      Pedersen.

   3) Don't put aead_req crypto struct on the stack in mac80211, from
      Ard Biesheuvel.

   4) Several uninitialized variable warning fixes from Arnd Bergmann.

   5) Fix memory leak in cxgb4, from Colin Ian King.

   6) Fix bpf handling of VLAN header push/pop, from Daniel Borkmann.

   7) Several VRF semantic fixes from David Ahern.

   8) Set skb-&gt;protocol properly in ip6_tnl_xmit(), from Eli Cooper.

   9) Socket needs to be locked in udp_disconnect(), from Eric Dumazet.

  10) Div-by-zero on 32-bit fix in mlx4 driver, from Eugenia Emantayev.

  11) Fix stale link state during failover in NCSCI driver, from Gavin
      Shan.

  12) Fix netdev lower adjacency list traversal, from Ido Schimmel.

  13) Propvide proper handle when emitting notifications of filter
      deletes, from Jamal Hadi Salim.

  14) Memory leaks and big-endian issues in rtl8xxxu, from Jes Sorensen.

  15) Fix DESYNC_FACTOR handling in ipv6, from Jiri Bohac.

  16) Several routing offload fixes in mlxsw driver, from Jiri Pirko.

  17) Fix broadcast sync problem in TIPC, from Jon Paul Maloy.

  18) Validate chunk len before using it in SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  19) Revert a netns locking change that causes regressions, from Paul
      Moore.

  20) Add recursion limit to GRO handling, from Sabrina Dubroca.

  21) GFP_KERNEL in irq context fix in ibmvnic, from Thomas Falcon.

  22) Avoid accessing stale vxlan/geneve socket in data path, from
      Pravin Shelar"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (189 commits)
  geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.
  vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.
  qede: Fix out-of-bound fastpath memory access
  net: phy: dp83848: add dp83822 PHY support
  enic: fix rq disable
  tipc: fix broadcast link synchronization problem
  ibmvnic: Fix missing brackets in init_sub_crq_irqs
  ibmvnic: Fix releasing of sub-CRQ IRQs in interrupt context
  Revert "ibmvnic: Fix releasing of sub-CRQ IRQs in interrupt context"
  arch/powerpc: Update parameters for csum_tcpudp_magic &amp; csum_tcpudp_nofold
  net/mlx4_en: Save slave ethtool stats command
  net/mlx4_en: Fix potential deadlock in port statistics flow
  net/mlx4: Fix firmware command timeout during interrupt test
  net/mlx4_core: Do not access comm channel if it has not yet been initialized
  net/mlx4_en: Fix panic during reboot
  net/mlx4_en: Process all completions in RX rings after port goes up
  net/mlx4_en: Resolve dividing by zero in 32-bit system
  net/mlx4_core: Change the default value of enable_qos
  net/mlx4_core: Avoid setting ports to auto when only one port type is supported
  net/mlx4_core: Fix the resource-type enum in res tracker to conform to FW spec
  ...
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<title>tipc: fix broadcast link synchronization problem</title>
<updated>2016-10-29T21:21:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Paul Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-27T22:51:55+00:00</published>
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In commit 2d18ac4ba745 ("tipc: extend broadcast link initialization
criteria") we tried to fix a problem with the initial synchronization
of broadcast link acknowledge values. Unfortunately that solution is
not sufficient to solve the issue.

We have seen it happen that LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE packets with a valid
non-zero unicast acknowledge number may bypass BCAST_PROTOCOL
initialization, NAME_DISTRIBUTOR and other STATE packets with invalid
broadcast acknowledge numbers, leading to premature opening of the
broadcast link. When the bypassed packets finally arrive, they are
inadvertently accepted, and the already correctly initialized
acknowledge number in the broadcast receive link is overwritten by
the invalid (zero) value of the said packets. After this the broadcast
link goes stale.

We now fix this by marking the packets where we know the acknowledge
value is or may be invalid, and then ignoring the acks from those.

To this purpose, we claim an unused bit in the header to indicate that
the value is invalid. We set the bit to 1 in the initial BCAST_PROTOCOL
synchronization packet and all initial ("bulk") NAME_DISTRIBUTOR
packets, plus those LINK_PROTOCOL packets sent out before the broadcast
links are fully synchronized.

This minor protocol update is fully backwards compatible.

Reported-by: John Thompson &lt;thompa.atl@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Thompson &lt;thompa.atl@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In commit 2d18ac4ba745 ("tipc: extend broadcast link initialization
criteria") we tried to fix a problem with the initial synchronization
of broadcast link acknowledge values. Unfortunately that solution is
not sufficient to solve the issue.

We have seen it happen that LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE packets with a valid
non-zero unicast acknowledge number may bypass BCAST_PROTOCOL
initialization, NAME_DISTRIBUTOR and other STATE packets with invalid
broadcast acknowledge numbers, leading to premature opening of the
broadcast link. When the bypassed packets finally arrive, they are
inadvertently accepted, and the already correctly initialized
acknowledge number in the broadcast receive link is overwritten by
the invalid (zero) value of the said packets. After this the broadcast
link goes stale.

We now fix this by marking the packets where we know the acknowledge
value is or may be invalid, and then ignoring the acks from those.

To this purpose, we claim an unused bit in the header to indicate that
the value is invalid. We set the bit to 1 in the initial BCAST_PROTOCOL
synchronization packet and all initial ("bulk") NAME_DISTRIBUTOR
packets, plus those LINK_PROTOCOL packets sent out before the broadcast
links are fully synchronized.

This minor protocol update is fully backwards compatible.

Reported-by: John Thompson &lt;thompa.atl@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Thompson &lt;thompa.atl@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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