Re: [PATCH] thunderbolt: Drop sequence number check from tb_xdomain_match()

[David Miller]

From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:27:34 +0300

> Commit 9a03c3d398c1 ("thunderbolt: Fix a couple right shifting to zero
> bugs") revealed an issue that was previously hidden because we never
> actually compared received XDomain message sequence numbers properly.
> The idea with these sequence numbers is that the responding host uses
> the same sequence number that was in the request packet which we can
> then check at the requesting host.
> 
> However, testing against macOS it looks like it does not follow this but
> instead uses some other logic. Windows driver on the other hand handles
> it the same way than Linux.
> 
> In order to be able to talk to macOS again, fix this so that we drop the
> whole sequence number check. This effectively works exactly the same
> than it worked before the aforementioned commit. This also follows the
> logic the original P2P networking code used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This applies on top of net-next.git/master.

Applied, thank you.