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2016-11-25tipc: improve sanity check for received domain recordsJon Paul Maloy
In commit 35c55c9877f8 ("tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework") we added a data area to the link monitor STATE messages under the assumption that previous versions did not use any such data area. For versions older than Linux 4.3 this assumption is not correct. In those version, all STATE messages sent out from a node inadvertently contain a 16 byte data area containing a string; -a leftover from previous RESET messages which were using this during the setup phase. This string serves no purpose in STATE messages, and should no be there. Unfortunately, this data area is delivered to the link monitor framework, where a sanity check catches that it is not a correct domain record, and drops it. It also issues a rate limited warning about the event. Since such events occur much more frequently than anticipated, we now choose to remove the warning in order to not fill the kernel log with useless contents. We also make the sanity check stricter, to further reduce the risk that such data is inavertently admitted. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-10tipc: fix variable dereference before NULL checkParthasarathy Bhuvaragan
In commit cf6f7e1d5109 ("tipc: dump monitor attributes"), I dereferenced a pointer before checking if its valid. This is reported by static check Smatch as: net/tipc/monitor.c:733 tipc_nl_add_monitor_peer() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'mon' (see line 731) In this commit, we check for a valid monitor before proceeding with any other operation. Fixes: cf6f7e1d5109 ("tipc: dump monitor attributes") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-30tipc: fix imbalance read_unlock_bh in __tipc_nl_add_monitor()Wei Yongjun
In the error handling case of nla_nest_start() failed read_unlock_bh() is called to unlock a lock that had not been taken yet. sparse warns about the context imbalance as the following: net/tipc/monitor.c:799:23: warning: context imbalance in '__tipc_nl_add_monitor' - different lock contexts for basic block Fixes: cf6f7e1d5109 ('tipc: dump monitor attributes') Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26tipc: dump monitor attributesParthasarathy Bhuvaragan
In this commit, we dump the monitor attributes when queried. The link monitor attributes are separated into two kinds: 1. general attributes per bearer 2. specific attributes per node/peer This style resembles the socket attributes and the nametable publications per socket. Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26tipc: get monitor threshold for the clusterParthasarathy Bhuvaragan
In this commit, we add support to fetch the configured cluster monitoring threshold. Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26tipc: make cluster size threshold for monitoring configurableParthasarathy Bhuvaragan
In this commit, we introduce support to configure the minimum threshold to activate the new link monitoring algorithm. Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-17tipc: potential shift wrapping bug in map_set()Dan Carpenter
"up_map" is a u64 type but we're not using the high 32 bits. Fixes: 35c55c9877f8 ('tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15tipc: add neighbor monitoring frameworkJon Paul Maloy
TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring in an N-node cluster increases with a factor N on each node, while the overall monitoring traffic through the network infrastructure increases at a ~(N * (N - 1)) rate. Experience has shown that such clusters don't scale well beyond ~100 nodes unless we significantly increase failure discovery tolerance. This commit introduces a framework and an algorithm that drastically reduces this background load, while basically maintaining the original failure detection times across the whole cluster. Using this algorithm, background load will now grow at a rate of ~(2 * sqrt(N)) per node, and at ~(2 * N * sqrt(N)) in traffic overhead. As an example, each node will now have to actively monitor 38 neighbors in a 400-node cluster, instead of as before 399. This "Overlapping Ring Supervision Algorithm" is completely distributed and employs no centralized or coordinated state. It goes as follows: - Each node makes up a linearly ascending, circular list of all its N known neighbors, based on their TIPC node identity. This algorithm must be the same on all nodes. - The node then selects the next M = sqrt(N) - 1 nodes downstream from itself in the list, and chooses to actively monitor those. This is called its "local monitoring domain". - It creates a domain record describing the monitoring domain, and piggy-backs this in the data area of all neighbor monitoring messages (LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE) leaving that node. This means that all nodes in the cluster eventually (default within 400 ms) will learn about its monitoring domain. - Whenever a node discovers a change in its local domain, e.g., a node has been added or has gone down, it creates and sends out a new version of its node record to inform all neighbors about the change. - A node receiving a domain record from anybody outside its local domain matches this against its own list (which may not look the same), and chooses to not actively monitor those members of the received domain record that are also present in its own list. Instead, it relies on indications from the direct monitoring nodes if an indirectly monitored node has gone up or down. If a node is indicated lost, the receiving node temporarily activates its own direct monitoring towards that node in order to confirm, or not, that it is actually gone. - Since each node is actively monitoring sqrt(N) downstream neighbors, each node is also actively monitored by the same number of upstream neighbors. This means that all non-direct monitoring nodes normally will receive sqrt(N) indications that a node is gone. - A major drawback with ring monitoring is how it handles failures that cause massive network partitionings. If both a lost node and all its direct monitoring neighbors are inside the lost partition, the nodes in the remaining partition will never receive indications about the loss. To overcome this, each node also chooses to actively monitor some nodes outside its local domain. Those nodes are called remote domain "heads", and are selected in such a way that no node in the cluster will be more than two direct monitoring hops away. Because of this, each node, apart from monitoring the member of its local domain, will also typically monitor sqrt(N) remote head nodes. - As an optimization, local list status, domain status and domain records are marked with a generation number. This saves senders from unnecessarily conveying unaltered domain records, and receivers from performing unneeded re-adaptations of their node monitoring list, such as re-assigning domain heads. - As a measure of caution we have added the possibility to disable the new algorithm through configuration. We do this by keeping a threshold value for the cluster size; a cluster that grows beyond this value will switch from full-mesh to ring monitoring, and vice versa when it shrinks below the value. This means that if the threshold is set to a value larger than any anticipated cluster size (default size is 32) the new algorithm is effectively disabled. A patch set for altering the threshold value and for listing the table contents will follow shortly. - This change is fully backwards compatible. Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>