From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:03:15 +0100

> When we receive a JOIN message from a peer member, the message may
> contain an advertised window value ADV_IDLE that permits removing the
> member in question from the tipc_group::congested list. However, since
> the removal has been made conditional on that the advertised window is
> *not* ADV_IDLE, we miss this case. This has the effect that a sender
> sometimes may enter a state of permanent, false, broadcast congestion.
> 
> We fix this by unconditinally removing the member from the congested
> list before calling tipc_member_update(), which might potentially sort
> it into the list again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

I bet this bug wasn't fun to track down.

Applied, thanks Jon.

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