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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
* 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>
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>
The function handles tlv containers and not tlv handlers. Thus the
lockdep_assert_held has to check for the container_list lock.
Fixes: 2c72d655b0 ("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>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
(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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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 3c12de9a5c
("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>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
On some architectures ether_addr_copy() is slightly faster
than memcpy() therefore use the former when possible.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c
net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
Overlapping changes between the "don't create two tcp metrics objects
with the same key" race fix in net and the addition of the destination
address in the lookup key in net-next.
Minor overlapping changes in bnx2x driver.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Batman-adv prepends a full ethernet header in addition to its own
header. This has to be reflected in the MTU calculation, especially
since the value is used to set dev->hard_header_len.
Introduced by 411d6ed93a
("batman-adv: consider network coding overhead when calculating required mtu")
Reported-by: cmsv <cmsv@wirelesspt.net>
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
With unrolling the batadv_header into the respective structures, the
offsetof checks are now useless. Instead, add build checks for all
packet types which go over the wire to avoid problems with wrong sizes
or compatibility issues on some architectures which don't use every day.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
The AP isolation status may be evaluated in different spots.
Create an helper function to avoid code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.
In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
struct batadv_icmp_header currently has a size of 17, which
will be padded to 20 on some architectures. Fix this by
unrolling the header into the parent structures.
Moreover keep the ICMP parsing functions as generic as they
are now by using a stub icmp_header struct during packet
parsing.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
The size of the batadv_header of 3 is problematic on some architectures
which automatically pad all structures to a 32 bit boundary. To not lose
performance by packing this struct, better embed it into the various
host structures.
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Each routing protocol has its own metric semantic and
therefore is the protocol itself the only component able to
compare two metrics to check their "similarity".
This new API allows each routing protocol to implement its
own logic and make the external code protocol agnostic.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
This new API allows to compare the two neighbours based on
the metric avoiding the user to deal with any routing
algorithm specific detail
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
A TT response may be prepared and sent while the local or
global translation table is getting updated.
The worst case is when one of the tables is accessed after
its content has been recently updated but the metadata
(TTVN/CRC) has not yet. In this case the reader will get a
table content which does not match the TTVN/CRC.
This will lead to an inconsistent state and so to a TT
recovery.
To avoid entering this situation, put a lock around those TT
operations recomputing the metadata and around the TT
Response creation (the latter is the only reader that
accesses the metadata together with the table).
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Since batman-adv is now fully VLAN-aware, a proper framework
able to handle per-vlan-interface attributes is needed.
Those attributes will affect the associated VLAN interface
only, rather than the real soft_iface (which would result
in every vlan interface having the same attribute
configuration).
To make the code simpler and easier to extend, attributes
associated to the standalone soft_iface are now treated
like belonging to yet another vlan having a special vid.
This vid is different from the others because it is made up
by all zeros and the VLAN_HAS_TAG bit is not set.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To make the translation table code VLAN-aware, each entry
must carry the VLAN ID which it belongs to. This patch adds
such attribute to the related TT structures.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
