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-rw-r--r--lib/rconn.c16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rconn.c b/lib/rconn.c
index 0c1812a27..8a2986403 100644
--- a/lib/rconn.c
+++ b/lib/rconn.c
@@ -558,19 +558,23 @@ run_ACTIVE(struct rconn *rc)
{
if (timed_out(rc)) {
unsigned int base = MAX(rc->last_activity, rc->state_entered);
- int version;
-
VLOG_DBG("%s: idle %u seconds, sending inactivity probe",
rc->name, (unsigned int) (time_now() - base));
- version = rconn_get_version__(rc);
- ovs_assert(version >= 0 && version <= 0xff);
-
/* Ordering is important here: rconn_send() can transition to BACKOFF,
* and we don't want to transition back to IDLE if so, because then we
* can end up queuing a packet with vconn == NULL and then *boom*. */
state_transition(rc, S_IDLE);
- rconn_send__(rc, make_echo_request(version), NULL);
+
+ /* Send an echo request if we can. (If version negotiation is not
+ * complete, that is, if we did not yet receive a "hello" message from
+ * the peer, we do not know the version to use, so we don't send
+ * anything.) */
+ int version = rconn_get_version__(rc);
+ if (version >= 0 && version <= 0xff) {
+ rconn_send__(rc, make_echo_request(version), NULL);
+ }
+
return;
}