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Commit b76b27ca authored by Allan Stephens's avatar Allan Stephens Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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tipc: Prevent loss of fragmented messages over unicast links



Modifies unicast link endpoint logic so an incoming fragmented message
is not lost if reassembly cannot begin because there is no buffer big
enough to hold the entire reassembled message. The link endpoint now
ignores the first fragment completely, which causes the sending node to
retransmit the first fragment so that reassembly can be re-attempted.

Previously, the sender would have had no reason to retransmit the 1st
fragment, so we would never have a chance to re-try the allocation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
parent 1ec2bb08
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