From 63fa01c147b98eaf5e5e4620c3c7bea8e9ddbbc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:37:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tipc: failed transmissions should return error

When a message could not be sent out because the destination node
or link could not be found, the full message size is returned from
sendmsg() as if it had been sent successfully. An application will
then get a false indication that it's making forward progress. This
problem has existed since the initial commit in 2.6.16.

We change this to return -ENETUNREACH if the message cannot be
delivered due to the destination node/link being unavailable. We
also get rid of the redundant tipc_reject_msg call since freeing
the buffer and doing a tipc_port_iovec_reject accomplishes exactly
the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/tipc/link.c | 14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/link.c b/net/tipc/link.c
index 284d6383ad6c..d1a764b9b2d8 100644
--- a/net/tipc/link.c
+++ b/net/tipc/link.c
@@ -1020,12 +1020,9 @@ int tipc_link_iovec_xmit_fast(struct tipc_port *sender,
 	read_unlock_bh(&tipc_net_lock);
 
 	/* Couldn't find a link to the destination node */
-	if (buf)
-		return tipc_reject_msg(buf, TIPC_ERR_NO_NODE);
-	if (res >= 0)
-		return tipc_port_iovec_reject(sender, hdr, msg_sect, len,
-					      TIPC_ERR_NO_NODE);
-	return res;
+	kfree_skb(buf);
+	tipc_port_iovec_reject(sender, hdr, msg_sect, len, TIPC_ERR_NO_NODE);
+	return -ENETUNREACH;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1163,8 +1160,9 @@ static int tipc_link_iovec_long_xmit(struct tipc_port *sender,
 	} else {
 reject:
 		kfree_skb_list(buf_chain);
-		return tipc_port_iovec_reject(sender, hdr, msg_sect,
-					      len, TIPC_ERR_NO_NODE);
+		tipc_port_iovec_reject(sender, hdr, msg_sect, len,
+				       TIPC_ERR_NO_NODE);
+		return -ENETUNREACH;
 	}
 
 	/* Append chain of fragments to send queue & send them */
-- 
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