resubmit bridge: fix message_age_timer calculation
authorChris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:37:47 +0000 (21:37 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:06:08 +0000 (21:06 +0100)
commit669c81001fd0bd914fb2a1c15ddbb427de8a8373
treef9a7ecfec0c33de1a394ff41d69d8090853afcd8
parentaf7e0f4a91ca9049ee9e541f8a98e762a12e9b9b
resubmit bridge: fix message_age_timer calculation

[ Upstream commit 9a0620133ccce9dd35c00a96405c8d80938c2cc0 ]

This changes the message_age_timer calculation to use the BPDU's max age as
opposed to the local bridge's max age.  This is in accordance with section
8.6.2.3.2 Step 2 of the 802.1D-1998 sprecification.

With the current implementation, when running with very large bridge
diameters, convergance will not always occur even if a root bridge is
configured to have a longer max age.

Tested successfully on bridge diameters of ~200.

Signed-off-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/bridge/br_stp.c