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batadv_nc_get_nc_node requires that the caller already has a valid
reference for orig_neigh_node. It is therefore not possible that it has an
reference counter of 0 and was still given to this function
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>
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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>
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The hard_iface is referenced in the packet_type for batman-adv. Increase
the refcounter of the hard_interface for it to have an explicit reference
for it in case this functionality gets refactorted and the currently
used implicit reference for it will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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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>
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The batadv_hardif_list list is checked in many situations and the items
in this list are given to specialized functions to modify the routing
behavior. At the moment each of these called functions has to check
itself whether the received batadv_hard_iface has a refcount > 0 before
it can increase the reference counter and use it in other objects.
This can easily lead to problems because it is not easily visible where
all callers of a function got the batadv_hard_iface object from and
whether they already hold a valid reference.
Checking the reference counter directly before calling a subfunction
with a pointer from the batadv_hardif_list avoids 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>
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There are network setups where the current bridge loop avoidance can't
detect bridge loops. The minimal setup affected would consist of two
LANs and two separate meshes, connected in a ring like that:
A...(mesh1)...B
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(LAN1) (LAN2)
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C...(mesh2)...D
Since both the meshes and backbones are separate, the bridge loop
avoidance has not enough information to detect and avoid the loop
in this case. Even if these scenarios can't be fixed easily,
these kind of loops can be detected.
This patch implements a periodic check (running every 60 seconds for
now) which sends a broadcast frame with a random MAC address on
each backbone VLAN. If a broadcast frame with the same MAC address
is received shortly after on the mesh, we know that there must be a
loop and report that incident as well as throw an uevent to let others
handle that problem.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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When creating a soft interface, create it in the same netns as the
hard interface. Replace all references to init_net with the correct
name space for the interface being manipulated.
Suggested-by: Daniel Ehlers <danielehlers@mindeye.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-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>
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The batX soft interface should not be moved between network name
spaces. This is similar to bridges, bonds, tunnels, which are not
allowed to move between network namespaces.
Suggested-by: Daniel Ehlers <danielehlers@mindeye.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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The callers of batadv_interface_rx have to make sure that enough data can
be pulled from the skb when they read the batman-adv header. The only two
functions using it are either calling pskb_may_pull with hdr_size directly
(batadv_recv_bcast_packet) or indirectly via batadv_check_unicast_packet
(batadv_recv_unicast_packet).
Reported-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Antonio Quartulli says:
====================
pull request: batman-adv 20160504
In this pull request you have:
- two changes to the MAINTAINERS file where one marks our mailing list
as moderated and the other adds a missing documentation file
- kernel-doc fixes
- code refactoring and various cleanups
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Replace all trans_start updates with netif_trans_update helper.
change was done via spatch:
struct net_device *d;
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- d->trans_start = jiffies
+ netif_trans_update(d)
Compile tested only.
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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batadv_iv_ogm_orig_del_if handles two different buffers bcast_own and
bcast_own_sum which should be resized. The error handling two for
allocating these buffers causes the complexity of this function. This can
be avoided completely when the function is split into a main function
handling the locking, freeing and call of the subfunctions.
The subfunction can then independently handle the resize of the buffers.
This also allows to easily reuse the old buffer (which always is larger) in
case a smaller buffer could not be allocated without increasing the code
complexity.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Since batadv_v_ogm_orig_update() was only called from one place and the
calling function became very short, merge these two functions together.
This should also reflect the protocol description of B.A.T.M.A.N. V
better.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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To match our code better to the protocol description of B.A.T.M.A.N. V,
move batadv_v_ogm_forward() out into batadv_v_ogm_process_per_outif()
and move all checks directly deciding whether the OGM should be
forwarded into batadv_v_ogm_forward().
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Structure initialization within the macros should follow the general
coding style used in the kernel: put the initialization of the first
variable and the closing brace on a separate line.
Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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checkpatch.pl warns about the use of 'unsigned' as a short form for
'unsigned int'.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
[sven@narfation.org: Fix additional names]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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Use to_delayed_work() instead of open-coding it.
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Use list_for_each_entry_safe() instead of list_for_each_safe() to
simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Use a static string when showing table headers rather then
a nonsense parametric one with fixed arguments.
It is easier to grep and it does not need to be recomputed
at runtime each time.
Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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The batadv_neigh_node was specific to a batadv_hardif_neigh_node and held
an implicit reference to it. But this reference was never stored in form of
a pointer in the batadv_neigh_node itself. Instead
batadv_neigh_node_release depends on a consistent state of
hard_iface->neigh_list and that batadv_hardif_neigh_get always returns the
batadv_hardif_neigh_node object which it has a reference for. But
batadv_hardif_neigh_get cannot guarantee that because it is working only
with rcu_read_lock on this list. It can therefore happen that a neigh_addr
is in this list twice or that batadv_hardif_neigh_get cannot find the
batadv_hardif_neigh_node for an neigh_addr due to some other list
operations taking place at the same time.
Instead add a batadv_hardif_neigh_node pointer directly in
batadv_neigh_node which will be used for the reference counter decremented
on release of batadv_neigh_node.
Fixes: cef63419f7db ("batman-adv: add list of unique single hop neighbors per hard-interface")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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The batadv_tt_local_entry was specific to a batadv_softif_vlan and held an
implicit reference to it. But this reference was never stored in form of a
pointer in the tt_local_entry itself. Instead batadv_tt_local_remove,
batadv_tt_local_table_free and batadv_tt_local_purge_pending_clients depend
on a consistent state of bat_priv->softif_vlan_list and that
batadv_softif_vlan_get always returns the batadv_softif_vlan object which
it has a reference for. But batadv_softif_vlan_get cannot guarantee that
because it is working only with rcu_read_lock on this list. It can
therefore happen that an vid is in this list twice or that
batadv_softif_vlan_get cannot find the batadv_softif_vlan for an vid due to
some other list operations taking place at the same time.
Instead add a batadv_softif_vlan pointer directly in batadv_tt_local_entry
which will be used for the reference counter decremented on release of
batadv_tt_local_entry.
Fixes: 35df3b298fc8 ("batman-adv: fix TT VLAN inconsistency on VLAN re-add")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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At the moment there is no explicit reactivation of an hard-interface
upon NETDEV_UP event. In case of B.A.T.M.A.N. IV the interface is
reactivated as soon as the next OGM is scheduled for sending, but this
mechanism does not work with B.A.T.M.A.N. V. The latter does not rely
on the same scheduling mechanism as its predecessor and for this reason
the hard-interface remains deactivated forever after being brought down
once.
This patch fixes the reactivation mechanism by adding a new routing API
which explicitly allows each algorithm to perform any needed operation
upon interface re-activation.
Such API is optional and is implemented by B.A.T.M.A.N. V only and it
just takes care of setting the iface status to ACTIVE
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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Now that DAT is VLAN aware, it must use the VID when
computing the DHT address of the candidate nodes where
an entry is going to be stored/retrieved.
Fixes: be1db4f6615b ("batman-adv: make the Distributed ARP Table vlan aware")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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When removing a single interface while a broadcast or ogm packet is
still pending then we will free the forward packet without releasing the
queue slots again.
This patch is supposed to fix this issue.
Fixes: 6d5808d4ae1b ("batman-adv: Add missing hardif_free_ref in forw_packet_free")
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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_batadv_update_route rcu_derefences orig_ifinfo->router outside of a
spinlock protected region to print some information messages to the debug
log. But this pointer is not checked again when the new pointer is assigned
in the spinlock protected region. Thus is can happen that the value of
orig_ifinfo->router changed in the meantime and thus the reference counter
of the wrong router gets reduced after the spinlock protected region.
Just rcu_dereferencing the value of orig_ifinfo->router inside the spinlock
protected region (which also set the new pointer) is enough to get the
correct old router object.
Fixes: e1a5382f978b ("batman-adv: Make orig_node->router an rcu protected pointer")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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The shutdown of an batman-adv interface can happen with one of its slave
interfaces still being in the BATADV_IF_TO_BE_ACTIVATED state. A possible
reason for it is that the routing algorithm BATMAN_V was selected and
batadv_schedule_bat_ogm was not yet called for this interface. This slave
interface still has to be set to BATADV_IF_INACTIVE or the batman-adv
interface will never reduce its usage counter and thus never gets shutdown.
This problem can be simulated via:
$ modprobe dummy
$ modprobe batman-adv routing_algo=BATMAN_V
$ ip link add bat0 type batadv
$ ip link set dummy0 master bat0
$ ip link set dummy0 up
$ ip link del bat0
unregister_netdevice: waiting for bat0 to become free. Usage count = 3
Reported-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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The encapsulated ethernet and VLAN header may be outside the received
ethernet frame. Thus the skb buffer size has to be checked before it can be
parsed to find out if it encapsulates another batman-adv packet.
Fixes: 420193573f11 ("batman-adv: softif bridge loop avoidance")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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The driver calls cfg80211_get_station, which may be part of a
module, so we must not enable BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V if
BATMAN_ADV=y and CFG80211=m:
net/built-in.o: In function `batadv_v_elp_get_throughput':
(text+0x5c62c): undefined reference to `cfg80211_get_station'
This clarifies the dependency to cover all combinations.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: c833484e5f38 ("batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughput")
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
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Lists all neighbours detected by the Echo Locating Protocol
(ELP) and their throughput metric.
Initially 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>
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Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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In case of an unused wireless link, the mac80211 throughput estimation
won't get updated further. Consequently, the reported throughput metric
will become obsolete.
With this patch unicast sampling is introduced by periodically sending
unicast ELP packets to each neighbor on idle WiFi links. These sampling
packets will fill an entire frame, so that the measurement is as
reliable as possible
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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In case of wireless interface retrieve the throughput by
querying cfg80211. To perform this call a separate work
must be scheduled because the function may sleep and this
is not allowed within an RCU protected context (RCU in this
case is used to iterate over all the neighbours).
Use ethtool to retrieve information about an Ethernet link
like HALF/FULL_DUPLEX and advertised bandwidth (e.g.
100/10Mbps).
The metric is updated each time a new ELP packet is sent,
this way it is possible to timely react to a metric
variation which can imply (for example) a neighbour
disconnection.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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To enable ELP to send probing packets over wireless links
only if needed, batman-adv must keep track of the last time
it sent a unicast packet towards every neighbour.
For this purpose a 2 main changes are introduced:
1) a new member of the elp_neigh_node structure stores the
last time a unicast packet was sent towards this neighbour;
2) a wrapper function for sending unicast packets is
implemented. This function will simply update the member
describe din point 1) and then forward the packet to the
real sending routine.
Point 2) implies that any code-path leading to a unicast
sending now has to use the new wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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This attribute is exported to user space to disable the link
throughput auto-detection by setting a fixed value.
The throughput override value is used when batman-adv is
computing the link throughput towards a neighbour.
If the value is set to 0 then batman-adv will try to detect
the throughput by itself.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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Add the support for recognising new originators in the
network and rebroadcast their OGMs.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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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>
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This parameter can be set individually on each interface and
allows the configuration of the elp interval for the link
quality measurements during runtime. Usually it is desirable
to set it to a higher (= slower) value on interfaces which
have a more static characteristic (e.g. wired interfaces)
or very dense neighbourhoods to reduce overhead.
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>
[antonio@open-mesh.com: respin on top of the latest master]
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
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Initially 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>
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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>
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This allows us to easily add a sysfs parameter for an
unsigned int later, which is not for a batman mesh interface
(e.g. bat0), but for a common interface instead. It allows
reading and writing an atomic_t in hard_iface (instead of
bat_priv compared to the mesh variant).
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>
[antonio@open-mesh.com: rename functions and move macros]
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
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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>
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