The local and the global translation-tables are now lock free and rcu
protected.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming,
an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point
the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting
mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to
correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet
drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover
its connections.
A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this
issue.
This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the
client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this
way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node
can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will
then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher
information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery
delay.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network
of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that
client from any given point in the mesh.
The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data
buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is
serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables
(table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this
MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the
OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the
client is connected to and its address in the global translation table.
It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several
issues:
- big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of
connected clients)
- high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and
OGM losses
The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client
changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of
filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes
can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the
overhead within the OGMs.
To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation
table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These
values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to
determine whether or not they need to update their translation table
information.
When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet
to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to
the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with
their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information
than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly
reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The amount of duplicated code in the receive and routing code can be
reduced when all headers provide the packet type, version and ttl in the
same first bytes.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
char was used in different places to store information without really
using the characteristics of that data type or by ignoring the fact that
char has not a well defined signedness.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed, and returns -1
through it:
net/batman-adv/routing.c: In function 'receive_bat_packet':
net/batman-adv/routing.c:739: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
Use int instead.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
[sven@narfation.org: Rebase on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
interface_tx is not used outside of soft-interface.c and thus doesn't
need to be declared inside soft-interface.h
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
compare_orig is only used in context of orig_node which is managed
inside originator.c. It is not necessary to keep that function inside
the header originator.h.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The definition NO_FLAGS was introduced to make the code more
readable and shall be used to initialize flag fields.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
CodingStyle "Chapter 12: Macros, Enums and RTL" recommends to use enums
for several related constants. Internal states can be used without
defining the actual value, but all values which are visible to the
outside must be defined as before. Normal values are assigned as usual
and flags are defined by shifts of a bit.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
CodingStyle "Chapter 12: Macros, Enums and RTL" highly recommends to use
functions instead of macros were possible. This ensures type safety and
prevents shadowing of other variables.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
strict_strtoul as used in parse_gw_bandwidth is defined for unsigned
long and strict_strtol should be used instead for long.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
gw_node_delete is defined with "void" as return type, but still tries to
return a value. The called function gw_node_delete is also return as
void and thus doesn't provide a value for us.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
When a link is saturated (re)broadcasts of OGMs are delayed. Under heavy
load this delay may exceed the orig interval which leads to OGMs being
dropped (the code would only accept an OGM rebroadcast if it arrived
before the next OGM was broadcasted). With this patch batman-adv will
also accept delayed OGMs in order to avoid a bogus influence on the
routing metric.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Furlan <daniele.furlan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The debug output of update_route has tests for "route deleted" and "route
added". All other situations are handled as "route changed". This is not
true because neigh_node and curr_router could be both NULL.
The function is not called in this situation, but the code might be
interpreted wrong when reading it without this test.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
This comment has been wrongly put after the variable it refers to and was also bad indented
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Instead of comparing mac addresses with the broadcast address by means
of compare_eth(), the is_broadcast_ether_addr() kernel function has to be
used.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
seq_before and seq_after depend on the fact that both sequence numbers
have the same type and thus the same bitwidth. We can ensure that by
compile time checking using a compare between the pointer to the
temporary buffers which were created using the typeof of both
parameters. For example gcc would create a warning like
"warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast".
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
smallest_signed_int(), seq_before() and seq_after() are very useful
functions that help to handle comparisons between sequence numbers.
However they were only defined in vis.c. With this patch every
batman-adv function will be able to use them.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Usually rcu_dereference isn't necessary in situations were the
RCU-protected data structure cannot change, but sparse and lockdep still
need a similar functionality for analysis. rcu_dereference_protected
implements the reduced version which should be used to support the
dynamic and static analysis.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use the form
p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
to calculate the size of a struct and not the version where the struct
name is spelled out to prevent bugs when the type of p changes. This
also seems appropriate for manipulation of buffers when they are
directly associated with p.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Casting from pointer like 'struct orig_node*' to 'struct orig_node *'
doesn't provide any additional functionality and can be savely removed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
It is not necessary to cast a void* to the pointer type when we just
store it and don't want to do pointer arithmetic before the actual
assignment.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
It is not save to provide memory for an int and then cast the pointer to
it to long*. It is better to standardize the up and down gateway
bandwith representation to simple ints and only use long inside
conversation routines.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not
violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a
cast to the non-const version.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The size of void is currently set by gcc to 1, but is not well defined
in general. Therefore it is more advisable to cast it to char* before
doing pointer arithmetic.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Every time that find_router() is invoked, if_status has to be compared with
IF_ACTIVE. Moving this comparison inside find_router() will avoid to write it
each time.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
tg3: Update version to 3.119
tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.
The broadcast flood protection should be reset to its original value
if the primary interface could not be retrieved.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
add_bcast_packet_to_list increases the refcount for if_incoming but the
reference count is never decreased. The reference count must be
increased for all kinds of forwarded packets which have the primary
interface stored and forw_packet_free must decrease them. Also
purge_outstanding_packets has to invoke forw_packet_free when a work
item was really cancelled.
This regression was introduced in
32ae9b221e.
Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
In function is_bidirectional_neigh the code that find out the one hop
neighbor is duplicated.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Furlan <daniele.furlan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
It is slightly irritating that comments after a long line span over
multiple lines without any code. It is easier to put them before the
actual code and reduce the number of lines which the eye has to read.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed
to the TranslationTable style
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The hard_if_event is called by the notifier with rtnl_lock and tries to
remove sysfs entries when a NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is received. This
will automatically take the s_active lock.
The s_active lock is also used when a new interface is added to a meshif
through sysfs. In that situation we cannot wait for the rntl_lock before
creating the actual batman-adv interface to prevent a deadlock. It is
still possible to try to get the rtnl_lock and immediately abort the
current operation when the trylock call failed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
hardif_list_lock is unneccessary because we already ensure that no
multiple admin operations can take place through rtnl_lock.
hardif_list_lock only adds additional overhead and complexity.
Critical functions now check whether they are called with rtnl_lock
using ASSERT_RTNL.
It indirectly fixes the problem that orig_hash_del_if() expects that
only one interface is deleted from hardif_list at a time, but
hardif_remove_interfaces() removes all at once and then calls
orig_hash_del_if().
Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The bridge loop detection for batman-adv allows the bat0 interface
to be bridged into an ethernet segment which other batman-adv nodes
are connected to. In order to also allow multiple VLANs on top of
the bat0 interface to be bridged into the ethernet segment this
patch extends the aforementioned bridge loop detection.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The RCU callback softif_neigh_free_rcu() just calls kfree(), so we can
use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The RCU callback neigh_node_free_rcu() just calls kfree(), so we can use
kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The RCU callback gw_node_free_rcu() just calls kfree(), so we can use
kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer()
for the bat_priv->primary_if need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking.
Otherwise we might end up using a primary_if pointer pointing to already
freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
This is a regression from c4aac1ab9b
- gw_node_update() doesn't add a new gw_node in case of empty curr_gw.
This means that at the beginning no gw_node is added, leading to an
empty gateway list.
- gw_election() is terminating in case of curr_gw == NULL. It has to
terminate in case of curr_gw != NULL
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
