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2011-10-30Merge branch 'batman-adv/maint' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller1-2/+2
2011-10-25batman-adv: unify hash_entry field position in tt_local/global_entryAntonio Quartulli1-2/+2
Function tt_response_fill_table() actually uses a tt_local_entry pointer to iterate either over the local or the global table entries (it depends on the what hash table is passed as argument). To iterate over such entries the hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() macro has to access their "hash_entry" field which MUST be at the same position in both the tt_global/local_entry structures. Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-08-22batman-adv: implement AP-isolation on the receiver sideAntonio Quartulli1-0/+1
When a node receives a unicast packet it checks if the source and the destination client can communicate or not due to the AP isolation Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-08-22batman-adv: correct several typ0s in the commentsAntonio Quartulli1-2/+2
Several typos have been corrected and some sentences have been rephrased Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-07-05batman-adv: unify flags for tt_change/tt_local_entry/tt_global_entryAntonio Quartulli1-2/+2
The tt_local_entry structure now has a 'flags' field. This helps to unify the flags format to all the client related structures (tt_global_entry and tt_change). The 'never_purge' field is now encoded in the 'flags' one. To optimise the usage of this field, its length has been increased to 16bit in order to use the eight leading bits (from 0 to 7) to store flags that have to be sent on the wire, while the eight ending ones are used for local computation only. Moreover 'enum tt_change_flags' is now called 'enum tt_client_flags' and the defined values apply to the tt_local_entry, tt_global_entry and the tt_change 'flags' field. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-06-20batman-adv: gateway election code refactoringAntonio Quartulli1-0/+1
The gateway election mechanism has been a little revised. Now the gw_election is trigered by an atomic_t flag (gw_reselect) which is set to 1 in case of election needed, avoding to set curr_gw to NULL. 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>
2011-06-20batman-adv: protect the local and the global trans-tables with rcuAntonio Quartulli1-2/+4
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>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved roaming mechanismAntonio Quartulli1-2/+24
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>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanismAntonio Quartulli1-2/+31
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>
2011-05-30batman-adv: a multiline comment should precede the variable it is describingAntonio Quartulli1-4/+4
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>
2011-05-08batman-adv: Remove multiline comments from line endingSven Eckelmann1-5/+5
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>
2011-05-08batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)Antonio Quartulli1-12/+12
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>
2011-05-08batman-adv: multi vlan support for bridge loop detectionMarek Lindner1-3/+12
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>
2011-05-01batman-adv: Make bat_priv->primary_if an rcu protected pointerMarek Lindner1-1/+1
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>
2011-04-17batman-adv: protect softif_neigh by rcuSimon Wunderlich1-1/+1
Add get/set wrapper functions for softif_neigh and use rcu functions to manipulate the pointers. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-04-17batman-adv: Protect global TQ window with a spinlockLinus Lüssing1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-04-17batman-adv: Make orig_node->router an rcu protected pointerLinus Lüssing1-2/+2
The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() for the orig_node->router need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking. Otherwise we might end up using a router pointer pointing to already freed memory. Therefore this commit introduces the safe getter method orig_node_get_router(). Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-03-05batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_ifaceMarek Lindner1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: remove orig_hash spinlockMarek Lindner1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for orig_nodeMarek Lindner1-1/+2
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount operations have to be atomic. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: remove extra layer between hash and hash element - hash bucketMarek Lindner1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Make bat_priv->curr_gw an rcu protected pointerLinus Lüssing1-2/+2
The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() for the bat_priv->curr_gw need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking. Otherwise we might end up using a curr_gw pointer pointing to already freed memory. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: make broadcast seqno operations atomicMarek Lindner1-0/+2
Batman-adv could receive several payload broadcasts at the same time that would trigger access to the broadcast seqno sliding window to determine whether this is a new broadcast or not. If these incoming broadcasts are accessing the sliding window simultaneously it could be left in an inconsistent state. Therefore it is necessary to make sure this access is atomic. Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect bit operations to count OGMs with spinlockMarek Lindner1-3/+3
Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@saxnet.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for batman_ifMarek Lindner1-1/+1
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount operations have to be atomic. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for softif_neighMarek Lindner1-1/+1
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount operations have to be atomic. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for gw_nodeMarek Lindner1-1/+1
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount operations have to be atomic. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for neigh_nodeMarek Lindner1-2/+1
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount operations have to be atomic. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect bonding with rcu locksSimon Wunderlich1-5/+4
bonding / alternating candidates need to be secured by rcu locks as well. This patch therefore converts the bonding list from a plain pointer list to a rcu securable lists and references the bonding candidates. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect ogm counter arrays with spinlockMarek Lindner1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect originator nodes with reference countersMarek Lindner1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect neighbor list with rcu locksMarek Lindner1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: convert neighbor list to hlistMarek Lindner1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect neighbor nodes with reference countersMarek Lindner1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-01-31batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-16batman-adv: Use "__attribute__" shortcut macrosSven Eckelmann1-2/+2
Linux 2.6.21 defines different macros for __attribute__ which are also used inside batman-adv. The next version of checkpatch.pl warns about the usage of __attribute__((packed))). Linux 2.6.33 defines an extra macro __always_unused which is used to assist source code analyzers and can be used to removed the last existing __attribute__ inside the source code. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann1-0/+271
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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