garp: retry sending JoinIn messages after allocation failures Increase reliability by retrying to send JoinIn messages after memory allocation failures on each TRANSMIT_PDU event until it succeeds. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c index 3b78f7b..1dcb066 100644 --- a/net/802/garp.c +++ b/net/802/garp.c
@@ -323,7 +323,10 @@ case GARP_ACTION_NONE: break; case GARP_ACTION_S_JOIN_IN: - garp_pdu_append_attr(app, attr, GARP_JOIN_IN); + /* When appending the attribute fails, don't update state in + * order to retry on next TRANSMIT_PDU event. */ + if (garp_pdu_append_attr(app, attr, GARP_JOIN_IN) < 0) + return; break; case GARP_ACTION_S_LEAVE_EMPTY: garp_pdu_append_attr(app, attr, GARP_LEAVE_EMPTY);