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Sven Eckelmann 44c4349a2a batman-adv: Replace version info instead of appending them
The version number of modules build outside of the tree can get revision
numbers added. This is useful to give hints about the revision of a
distribution package and the used patchset. The prepended source number or
branch name doesn't add any additional information which would help to identify
problems and can therefore be omitted.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-07-05 14:48:56 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli cc47f66e6b batman-adv: improved roaming mechanism
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>
2011-06-20 11:37:27 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli a73105b8d4 batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanism
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>
2011-06-20 11:37:24 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann b8e2dd135c batman-adv: Move compare_orig to originator.c
compare_orig is only used in context of orig_node which is managed
inside originator.c. It is not necessary to keep that function inside
the header originator.h.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 10:38:55 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 704509b8d4 batman-adv: Calculate sizeof using variable insead of types
Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use the form

	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

to calculate the size of a struct and not the version where the struct
name is spelled out to prevent bugs when the type of p changes. This
also seems appropriate for manipulation of buffers when they are
directly associated with p.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30 07:39:33 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 747e4221a0 batman-adv: Add const type qualifier for pointers
batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not
violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a
cast to the non-const version.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30 07:39:31 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 38e3c5f0da batman-adv: Don't do pointer arithmetic with void*
The size of void is currently set by gcc to 1, but is not well defined
in general. Therefore it is more advisable to cast it to char* before
doing pointer arithmetic.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30 07:39:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 06f4e926d2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits)
  macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond
  tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround.
  tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error
  macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
  networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET
  irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param()
  irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication()
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport()
  be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download()
  irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication()
  atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined.
  rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer().
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection()
  rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window()
  pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify()
  isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs.
  tg3: Update version to 3.119
  tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
as per Davem.
2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
Antonio Quartulli 2dafb49d84 batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)
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>
2011-05-08 16:10:42 +02:00
Marek Lindner 28f8e546e6 batman-adv: remove misplaced comment
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08 16:10:07 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney ae179ae433 batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree()
The RCU callback neigh_node_free_rcu() just calls kfree(), so we can use
kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-07 22:51:14 -07:00
Marek Lindner 32ae9b221e batman-adv: Make bat_priv->primary_if an rcu protected pointer
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>
2011-05-01 22:49:03 +02:00
Linus Lüssing 68003903e4 batman-adv: Protect global TQ window with a spinlock
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>
2011-04-17 21:11:01 +02:00
Linus Lüssing e1a5382f97 batman-adv: Make orig_node->router an rcu protected pointer
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>
2011-04-17 21:11:01 +02:00
Marek Lindner e6c10f433a batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_iface
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:06 +01:00
Marek Lindner 4389e47af8 batman-adv: rename global if_list to hardif_list
Batman-adv works with "hard interfaces" as well as "soft interfaces".
The new name should better make clear which kind of interfaces this
list stores.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:05 +01:00
Marek Lindner d0072609ba batman-adv: remove orig_hash spinlock
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:04 +01:00
Marek Lindner 1605d0d60b batman-adv: increase refcount in create_neighbor to be consistent
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:03 +01:00
Marek Lindner 7b36e8eef9 batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for orig_node
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>
2011-03-05 12:52:01 +01:00
Marek Lindner 7aadf889e8 batman-adv: remove extra layer between hash and hash element - hash bucket
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:00 +01:00
Marek Lindner f3e0008f01 batman-adv: make broadcast seqno operations atomic
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>
2011-03-05 12:50:09 +01:00
Marek Lindner 44524fcdf6 batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for neigh_node
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>
2011-03-05 12:50:03 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich a4c135c561 batman-adv: protect bonding with rcu locks
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>
2011-03-05 12:50:01 +01:00
Marek Lindner 2ae2daf6c3 batman-adv: protect ogm counter arrays with spinlock
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:50:00 +01:00
Marek Lindner 16b1aba849 batman-adv: protect originator nodes with reference counters
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:49:59 +01:00
Marek Lindner fb778ea173 batman-adv: protect each hash row with rcu locks
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:49:58 +01:00
Marek Lindner 1a241a57be batman-adv: free neighbors when an interface is deactivated
hardif_disable_interface() calls purge_orig_ref() to immediately free
all neighbors associated with the interface that is going down.
purge_orig_neighbors() checked if the interface status is IF_INACTIVE
which is set to IF_NOT_IN_USE shortly before calling purge_orig_ref().

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:49:55 +01:00
Marek Lindner f987ed6ebd batman-adv: protect neighbor list with rcu locks
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:49:54 +01:00
Marek Lindner 9591a79f28 batman-adv: convert neighbor list to hlist
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:49:53 +01:00
Marek Lindner a8e7f4bc38 batman-adv: protect neighbor nodes with reference counters
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:49:52 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann 64afe35398 batman-adv: Update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:12 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 74ef115359 batman-adv: remove unused parameters
Some function parameters are obsolete now and can be removed.

Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:09 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann c6c8fea297 net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol
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>
2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00