linux-stable/net
Tuong Lien 41b416f1fc tipc: support in-order name publication events
It is observed that TIPC service binding order will not be kept in the
publication event report to user if the service is subscribed after the
bindings.

For example, services are bound by application in the following order:

Server: bound port A to {18888,66,66} scope 2
Server: bound port A to {18888,33,33} scope 2

Now, if a client subscribes to the service range (e.g. {18888, 0-100}),
it will get the 'TIPC_PUBLISHED' events in that binding order only when
the subscription is started before the bindings.
Otherwise, if started after the bindings, the events will arrive in the
opposite order:

Client: received event for published {18888,33,33}
Client: received event for published {18888,66,66}

For the latter case, it is clear that the bindings have existed in the
name table already, so when reported, the events' order will follow the
order of the rbtree binding nodes (- a node with lesser 'lower'/'upper'
range value will be first).

This is correct as we provide the tracking on a specific service status
(available or not), not the relationship between multiple services.
However, some users expect to see the same order of arriving events
irrespective of when the subscription is issued. This turns out to be
easy to fix. We now add functionality to ensure that publication events
always are issued in the same temporal order as the corresponding
bindings were performed.

v2: replace the unnecessary macro - 'publication_after()' with inline
function.
v3: reuse 'time_after32()' instead of reinventing the same exact code.

Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-11-22 09:29:50 -08:00
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6lowpan
9p 9p pull request for inclusion in 5.4 2019-09-27 15:10:34 -07:00
802
8021q net: remove unnecessary variables and callback 2019-10-24 14:53:49 -07:00
appletalk appletalk: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets 2019-09-24 16:37:18 +02:00
atm net: use helpers to change sk_ack_backlog 2019-11-06 16:14:48 -08:00
ax25 net: use helpers to change sk_ack_backlog 2019-11-06 16:14:48 -08:00
batman-adv batman-adv: Drop lockdep.h include for soft-interface.c 2019-11-03 08:30:58 +01:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next 2019-11-12 19:29:57 -08:00
bpf bpf: Fix memory leak on object 'data' 2019-11-18 19:32:59 -08:00
bpfilter
bridge bridge: implement get_link_ksettings ethtool method 2019-11-12 19:52:15 -08:00
caif Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-02 13:54:56 -07:00
can can: j1939: warn if resources are still linked on destroy 2019-11-13 10:42:34 +01:00
ceph libceph: use ceph_kvmalloc() for osdmap arrays 2019-09-16 12:06:25 +02:00
core bpf: skmsg, fix potential psock NULL pointer dereference 2019-11-21 13:43:45 -08:00
dcb
dccp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-09 11:04:37 -08:00
decnet net: use helpers to change sk_ack_backlog 2019-11-06 16:14:48 -08:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: ocelot: add hardware timestamping support for Felix 2019-11-21 14:39:02 -08:00
ethernet net: add annotations on hh->hh_len lockless accesses 2019-11-07 20:07:30 -08:00
hsr
ieee802154 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-02 13:54:56 -07:00
ife net: Fix Kconfig indentation 2019-09-26 08:56:17 +02:00
ipv4 ipv4: use dst hint for ipv4 list receive 2019-11-21 14:45:55 -08:00
ipv6 ipv6: introduce and uses route look hints for list input. 2019-11-21 14:45:55 -08:00
iucv
kcm kcm: disable preemption in kcm_parse_func_strparser() 2019-09-27 10:27:14 +02:00
key
l2tp net: core: add generic lockdep keys 2019-10-24 14:53:48 -07:00
l3mdev
lapb
llc net: silence data-races on sk_backlog.tail 2019-11-06 21:35:34 -08:00
mac80211 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-09 11:04:37 -08:00
mac802154
mpls
ncsi net/ncsi: Disable global multicast filter 2019-09-19 18:04:40 -07:00
netfilter netfilter: nft_payload: add C-VLAN offload support 2019-11-20 11:21:34 -08:00
netlabel
netlink genetlink: do not parse attributes for families with zero maxattr 2019-10-13 11:20:03 -07:00
netrom net: core: add generic lockdep keys 2019-10-24 14:53:48 -07:00
nfc net: Fix Kconfig indentation, continued 2019-11-21 12:00:21 -08:00
nsh
openvswitch net: openvswitch: don't call pad_packet if not necessary 2019-11-15 12:43:27 -08:00
packet packet: fix data-race in fanout_flow_is_huge() 2019-11-08 14:06:19 -08:00
phonet net: use skb_queue_empty_lockless() in poll() handlers 2019-10-28 13:33:41 -07:00
psample net: sched: take reference to psample group in flow_action infra 2019-09-16 09:18:03 +02:00
qrtr net: qrtr: Simplify 'qrtr_tun_release()' 2019-10-30 17:58:23 -07:00
rds Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-16 21:51:42 -08:00
rfkill
rose net: use helpers to change sk_ack_backlog 2019-11-06 16:14:48 -08:00
rxrpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-02 13:54:56 -07:00
sched net: remove the unnecessary strict_start_type in some policies 2019-11-21 11:46:18 -08:00
sctp sctp: add SCTP_PEER_ADDR_THLDS_V2 sockopt 2019-11-08 14:18:32 -08:00
smc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-16 21:51:42 -08:00
strparser
sunrpc SUNRPC: Destroy the back channel when we destroy the host transport 2019-10-30 12:04:35 -04:00
switchdev
tipc tipc: support in-order name publication events 2019-11-22 09:29:50 -08:00
tls net/tls: Fix unused function warning 2019-11-15 12:12:28 -08:00
unix Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-02 13:54:56 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock: avoid to assign transport if its initialization fails 2019-11-21 11:37:16 -08:00
wimax
wireless Some relatively small changes: 2019-11-08 11:36:48 -08:00
x25 net: use helpers to change sk_ack_backlog 2019-11-06 16:14:48 -08:00
xdp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2019-11-02 15:29:58 -07:00
xfrm net: Fix Kconfig indentation, continued 2019-11-21 12:00:21 -08:00
compat.c
Kconfig net: Fix Kconfig indentation, continued 2019-11-21 12:00:21 -08:00
Makefile
socket.c
sysctl_net.c