From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:34:16 +0100

> Group messages are not supposed to be returned to sender when the
> destination socket disappears. This is done correctly for regular
> traffic messages, by setting the 'dest_droppable' bit in the header.
> But we forget to do that in group protocol messages. This has the effect
> that such messages may sometimes bounce back to the sender, be perceived
> as a legitimate peer message, and wreak general havoc for the rest of
> the session. In particular, we have seen that a member in state LEAVING
> may go back to state RECLAIMED or REMITTED, hence causing suppression
> of an otherwise expected 'member down' event to the user.
> 
> We fix this by setting the 'dest_droppable' bit even in group protocol
> messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

Applied.

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