When creating a new babel_source object we initialise the seqno to 0. The caller will update the source object with the right metric and seqno value, for both newly created and old source objects. However if we initialise the source object seqno to 0 that may actually turn out to be a valid (higher) seqno than the one in the routing table, because of seqno wrapping. In this case the source metric will not be set properly, which breaks feasibility tracking for subsequent updates. To fix this, add a new initial_seqno argument to babel_get_source() which is used when allocating a new object, and set that to the seqno value of the update we're sending. Reported-by: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> --- proto/babel/babel.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/proto/babel/babel.c b/proto/babel/babel.c index 25081c3bde2f..b7bb374206dc 100644 --- a/proto/babel/babel.c +++ b/proto/babel/babel.c @@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ babel_find_source(struct babel_entry *e, u64 router_id) } static struct babel_source * -babel_get_source(struct babel_proto *p, struct babel_entry *e, u64 router_id) +babel_get_source(struct babel_proto *p, struct babel_entry *e, u64 router_id, + u16 initial_seqno) { struct babel_source *s = babel_find_source(e, router_id); @@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ babel_get_source(struct babel_proto *p, struct babel_entry *e, u64 router_id) s = sl_allocz(p->source_slab); s->router_id = router_id; s->expires = current_time() + BABEL_GARBAGE_INTERVAL; - s->seqno = 0; + s->seqno = initial_seqno; s->metric = BABEL_INFINITY; add_tail(&e->sources, NODE s); @@ -1014,7 +1015,7 @@ babel_send_update_(struct babel_iface *ifa, btime changed, struct fib *rtable) /* Update feasibility distance for redistributed routes */ if (e->router_id != p->router_id) { - struct babel_source *s = babel_get_source(p, e, e->router_id); + struct babel_source *s = babel_get_source(p, e, e->router_id, msg.update.seqno); s->expires = current_time() + BABEL_GARBAGE_INTERVAL; if (gt_mod64k(msg.update.seqno, s->seqno) || -- 2.39.1