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2016-08-09batman-adv: Allow to disable debugfs supportSven Eckelmann1-0/+2
The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may still rely on the old debugfs files. But systems which already upgraded their tools can save some space by disabling this feature. The default configuration of batman-adv on amd64 can reduce the size of the module by around 11% when this feature is disabled. $ size net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko* text data bss dec hex filename 150507 10395 4160 165062 284c6 net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.y 137106 7099 2112 146317 23b8d net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.n Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09batman-adv: use kmem_cache for translation tableSven Eckelmann1-2/+14
The translation table (global, local) is usually the part of batman-adv which has the most dynamical allocated objects. Most of them (tt_local_entry, tt_global_entry, tt_orig_list_entry, tt_change_node, tt_req_node, tt_roam_node) are equally sized. So it makes sense to have them allocated from a kmem_cache for each type. This approach allowed a small wireless router (TP-Link TL-841NDv8; SLUB allocator) to store 34% more translation table entries compared to the current implementation. [1] https://open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Kmalloc-kmem-cache-tests Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09batman-adv: Define module rtnl link nameSven Eckelmann1-0/+1
The batman-adv module can automatically be loaded when operations over the rtnl link are triggered. This requires only the correct rtnl link name in the module header. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04batman-adv: throughput meter implementationAntonio Quartulli1-0/+4
The throughput meter module is a simple, kernel-space replacement for throughtput measurements tool like iperf and netperf. It is intended to approximate TCP behaviour. It is invoked through batctl: the protocol is connection oriented, with cumulative acknowledgment and a dynamic-size sliding window. The test *can* be interrupted by batctl. A receiver side timeout avoids unlimited waitings for sender packets: after one second of inactivity, the receiver abort the ongoing test. Based on a prototype from Edo Monticelli <montik@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio.quartulli@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-advMatthias Schiffer1-0/+3
debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel where files are dynamically added and removed (see http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware. Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers for debug tables and hard to parse text files. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> [sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family, add missing kerneldoc] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: Fix bat_(iv|v) function declaration headerSven Eckelmann1-0/+2
The bat_algo.h had some functions declared which were not part of the bat_algo.c file. These are instead stored in bat_v.c and bat_iv_ogm.c. The declaration should therefore be also in bat_v.h and bat_iv_ogm,h to make them easier to find. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functionsSven Eckelmann1-0/+2
There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them easier to find. Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: move bat_algo functions into a separate fileSven Eckelmann1-104/+1
The bat_algo functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~15%, 103 lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other helper functions in main.c. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: split tvlv into a separate fileMarkus Pargmann1-591/+0
The tvlv functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~45%, 588 lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other helper functions in main.c Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> [sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version, fix includes, rewrote commit message] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: remove ogm_emit and ogm_schedule API callsAntonio Quartulli1-2/+0
The ogm_emit and ogm_schedule API calls were rather tight to the B.A.T.M.A.N. IV logic and therefore rather difficult to use with other algorithm implementations. Remove such calls and move the surrounding logic into the B.A.T.M.A.N. IV specific code. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-05-10batman-adv: Use kref_get for batadv_tvlv_container_getSven Eckelmann1-3/+1
batadv_tvlv_container_get requires that tvlv.container_list_lock is held by the caller. It is therefore not possible that an item in tvlv.container_list has an reference counter of 0 and is still in the list The kref_get function instead WARNs (with debug information) when the reference counter would still be 0. This makes a bug in batman-adv better visible because kref_get_unless_zero would have ignored this problem. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-05-10batman-adv: Check hard_iface refcnt when receiving skbSven Eckelmann1-1/+13
The receive function may start processing an incoming packet while the hard_iface is shut down in a different context. All called functions called with the batadv_hard_iface object belonging to the incoming interface would have to check whether the reference counter is still > 0. This is rather error-prone because this check can be forgotten easily. Instead check the reference counter when receiving the object to make sure that all called functions have a valid reference. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-05-04batman-adv: Fix function names on new line starting with '*'Sven Eckelmann1-4/+4
Some really long function names in batman-adv require a newline between return type and the function name. This has lead to some lines starting with *batadv_... This * belongs to the return type and thus should be on the same line as the return type. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-29batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructureAntonio Quartulli1-0/+6
This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol (version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the newly added ELP. In the previous version the OGM protocol was used to both measure link qualities and flood the network with the metric information. In this version the protocol is in charge of the latter task only, leaving the former to ELP. This means being able to decouple the interval used by the neighbor discovery from the OGM broadcasting, which revealed to be costly in dense networks and needed to be relaxed so leading to a less responsive routing protocol. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructureLinus Luessing1-0/+1
The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality information through the whole mesh. This procedure is summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in details in the RFC draft published in 2008. This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it also bears some drawbacks: * Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss, therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow a fast reaction on flaky connections. Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce overhead. * It generally is more desirable to detect local link quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of the mesh does not need to care about local link quality changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time. As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these link quality information and determining the overall path transmit qualities. Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_softif_vlan *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann1-1/+1
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_tvlv_container *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann1-4/+4
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_tvlv_handler *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann1-7/+6
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_hardif *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann1-1/+1
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_orig_node *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann1-1/+1
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-10batman-adv: Convert batadv_tvlv_handler to krefSven Eckelmann1-6/+18
batman-adv uses a self-written reference implementation which is just based on atomic_t. This is less obvious when reading the code than kref and therefore increases the change that the reference counting will be missed. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-10batman-adv: Convert batadv_tvlv_container to krefSven Eckelmann1-5/+17
batman-adv uses a self-written reference implementation which is just based on atomic_t. This is less obvious when reading the code than kref and therefore increases the change that the reference counting will be missed. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-10batman-adv: Add lockdep assert for container_list_lockSven Eckelmann1-0/+4
The batadv_tvlv_container* functions state in their kernel-doc that they require tvlv.container_list_lock. Add an assert to automatically detect when this might have been ignored by the caller. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016Sven Eckelmann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc of main functionsSven Eckelmann1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc parsing of return descriptionSven Eckelmann1-13/+13
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09batman-adv: Less checks in batadv_tvlv_unicast_send()Markus Elfring1-10/+5
* Let us return directly if a call of the batadv_orig_hash_find() function returned a null pointer. * Omit the initialisation for the variable "skb" at the beginning. * Replace an assignment by a call of the kfree_skb() function and delete the affected variable "ret" then. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09batman-adv: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "kfree_skb"Markus Elfring1-1/+1
The kfree_skb() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the calls is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09batman-adv: Fix lockdep annotation of batadv_tlv_container_removeSven Eckelmann1-1/+1
The function handles tlv containers and not tlv handlers. Thus the lockdep_assert_held has to check for the container_list lock. Fixes: 2c72d655b044 ("batman-adv: Annotate deleting functions with external lock via lockdep") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2015-12-16batman-adv: Fix typo 'wether' -> 'whether'Sven Eckelmann1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-12-16batman-adv: rename equiv/equal or better to similar or betterSimon Wunderlich1-1/+1
Since the function applies a threshold and also slightly worse values are accepted, ''equal or better'' does not represent the intention of the function. ''Similar or better'' represents that better. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-27batman-adv: remove obsolete deleted attribute for gateway nodeSimon Wunderlich1-1/+1
With rcu, the gateway node deleted attribute is not needed anymore. In fact, it may delay the free of the gateway node and its referenced structures. Therefore remove it altogether and simplify purging as well. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-25batman-adv: beautify supported routing algorithm listMarek Lindner1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-25batman-adv: Annotate deleting functions with external lock via lockdepSven Eckelmann1-3/+8
Functions which use (h)list_del* are requiring correct locking when they operate on global lists. Most of the time the search in the list and the delete are done in the same function. All other cases should have it visible that they require a special lock to avoid race conditions. Lockdep asserts can be used to check these problem during runtime when the lockdep functionality is enabled. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-25batman-adv: convert bat_priv->tt.req_list to hlistMarek Lindner1-1/+1
Since the list's tail is never accessed using a double linked list head wastes memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-25batman-adv: Replace C99 int types with kernel typeSven Eckelmann1-36/+33
(s|u)(8|16|32|64) are the preferred types in the kernel. The use of the standard C99 types u?int(8|16|32|64)_t are objected by some people and even checkpatch now warns about using them. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-06-07batman-adv: Add required includes to all filesSven Eckelmann1-17/+39
The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used. This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the knowledge about the right order of local includes. Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly. Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on config settings and may not be stable in the future. The order for include blocks are: * primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file) * global linux headers * required local headers * extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h. This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must therefore build together with userspace applications. The header linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have to include main.h to work correctly. Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-03batman-adv: Remove unnecessary ret variable in algo_registerMarkus Pargmann1-5/+2
Remove ret variable and all jumps. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-03batman-adv: Remove unnecessary ret variableMarkus Pargmann1-8/+3
We can avoid this indirect return variable by directly returning the error values. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-03batman-adv: main, Convert is_my_mac() to boolMarkus Pargmann1-4/+7
It is much clearer to see a bool type as return value than 'int' for functions that are supposed to return true or false. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29batman-adv: tvlv realloc, move error handling into if blockMarkus Pargmann1-8/+8
Instead of hiding the normal function flow inside an if block, we should just put the error handling into the if block. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015Sven Eckelmann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-01-07batman-adv: fix misspelled wordsAntonio Quartulli1-1/+1
Reported-by: checkpatch Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-01-07batman-adv: clear control block of received socket buffersMartin Hundebøll1-0/+3
Since other network components (and some drivers) uses the control block provided in skb's, the network coding feature might wrongly assume that an SKB has been decoded, and thus not try to code it with another packet again. This happens for instance when batman-adv is running on a bridge device. Fix this by clearing the control block for every received SKB. Introduced by 3c12de9a5c756b23fe7c9ab332474ece1568914c ("batman-adv: network coding - code and transmit packets if possible") Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-01-07batman-adv: checkpatch - Please don't use multiple blank linesAntonio Quartulli1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-01-07batman-adv: kernel doc fixes for main.{c, h}Martin Hundebøll1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22batman-adv: Send multicast packets to nodes with a WANT_ALL flagLinus Lüssing1-0/+2
With this patch a node sends IPv4 multicast packets to nodes which have a BATADV_MCAST_WANT_ALL_IPV4 flag set and IPv6 multicast packets to nodes which have a BATADV_MCAST_WANT_ALL_IPV6 flag set, too. Why is this needed? There are scenarios involving bridges where multicast report snooping and multicast TT announcements are not sufficient, which would lead to packet loss for some nodes otherwise: MLDv1 and IGMPv1/IGMPv2 have a suppression mechanism for multicast listener reports. When we have an MLDv1/IGMPv1/IGMPv2 querier behind a bridge then our snooping bridge is potentially not going to see any reports even though listeners exist because according to RFC4541 such reports are only forwarded to multicast routers: ----------------------------------------------------------- --------------- {Querier}---|Snoop. Switch|----{Listener} --------------- \ ^ ------- | br0 | < ??? ------- \ _-~---~_ _-~/ ~-_ ~ batman-adv \-----{Sender} \~_ cloud ~/ -~~__-__-~_/ I) MLDv1 Query: {Querier} -> flooded II) MLDv1 Report: {Listener} -> {Querier} -> br0 cannot detect the {Listener} => Packets from {Sender} need to be forwarded to all detected listeners and MLDv1/IGMPv1/IGMPv2 queriers. ----------------------------------------------------------- Note that we do not need to explicitly forward to MLDv2/IGMPv3 queriers, because these protocols have no report suppression: A bridge has no trouble detecting MLDv2/IGMPv3 listeners. Even though we do not support bridges yet we need to provide the according infrastructure already to not break compatibility later. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22batman-adv: Add IPv4 link-local/IPv6-ll-all-nodes multicast supportLinus Lüssing1-0/+6
With this patch a node may additionally perform the dropping or unicasting behaviour for a link-local IPv4 and link-local-all-nodes IPv6 multicast packet, too. The extra counter and BATADV_MCAST_WANT_ALL_UNSNOOPABLES flag is needed because with a future bridge snooping support integration a node with a bridge on top of its soft interface is not able to reliably detect its multicast listeners for IPv4 link-local and the IPv6 link-local-all-nodes addresses anymore (see RFC4541, section 2.1.2.2 and section 3). Even though this new flag does make "no difference" now, it'll ensure a seamless integration of multicast bridge support without needing to break compatibility later. Also note, that even with multicast bridge support it won't be possible to optimize 224.0.0.x and ff02::1 towards nodes with bridges, they will always receive these ranges. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22batman-adv: Announce new capability via multicast TVLVLinus Lüssing1-0/+1
If the soft interface of a node is not part of a bridge then a node announces a new multicast TVLV: The existence of this TVLV signalizes that this node is announcing all of its multicast listeners via the translation table infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22batman-adv: Multicast Listener Announcements via Translation TableLinus Lüssing1-0/+6
With this patch a node which has no bridge interface on top of its soft interface announces its local multicast listeners via the translation table. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>