With the current TT mechanism a new client joining the network is not
immediately able to communicate with other hosts because its MAC address has not
been announced yet. This situation holds until the first OGM containing its
joining event will be spread over the mesh network.
This behaviour can be acceptable in networks where the originator interval is a
small value (e.g. 1sec) but if that value is set to an higher time (e.g. 5secs)
the client could suffer from several malfunctions like DHCP client timeouts,
etc.
This patch adds an early detection mechanism that makes nodes in the network
able to recognise "not yet announced clients" by means of the broadcast packets
they emitted on connection (e.g. ARP or DHCP request). The added client will
then be confirmed upon receiving the OGM claiming it or purged if such OGM
is not received within a fixed amount of time.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
When enabling promiscuous mode, tt queries for other hosts might be
received. Before this patch, "foreign" tt queries were processed like
any other query and thus forwarded to its destination again and thereby
causing a loop.
This patch adds a check to drop foreign tt queries.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
batadv_check_unicast_packet() is needed in batadv_recv_tt_query(), so
move the former to before the latter.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
The structure batadv_priv grows everytime a new feature is introduced. It gets
hard to find the parts of the struct that belongs to a specific feature. This
becomes even harder by the fact that not every feature uses a prefix in the
member name.
The variables for bridge loop avoidence, gateway handling, translation table
and visualization server are moved into separate structs that are included in
the bat_priv main struct.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
If this call fails, some of the orig_nodes spaces may have been
resized for the increased number of interface, and some may not.
If we would just continue with the larger number of interfaces,
this would lead to access to not allocated memory later.
We better check the return code, and don't add the interface if
no memory is available. OTOH, keeping some of the orig_nodes
with too much memory allocated should hurt no one (except for
a few too many bytes allocated).
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
The batadv_tt_orig_list_entry structure didn't have any refcounting mechanism so
far. This patch introduces it and makes the structure being usable in much more
complex context.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
As much as I'm happy to see LWN links sprinkled through the kernel by the
dozen, this one in particular reflects a very old state of reality; the
associated comment is now incorrect. So just delete it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
for consistency reasons within the code and with the documentation,
we should always call it "claim" and "unclaim".
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
This is especially useful if there are no claims yet, but we still want
to know which gateways are using bridge loop avoidance in the network.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Memory is allocated for 'tt_change_node' with kmalloc().
'tt_change_node' may go out of scope really being used for anything
(except have a few members initialized) if we hit the 'del:' label.
This patch makes sure we free the memory in that case.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a regression introduced by: 2265c14108
("batman-adv: gateway election code refactoring")
Reported-by: Nicolás Echániz <nicoechaniz@codigosur.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.h
net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
net/mac80211/mlme.c
With merge help from Antonio Quartulli (batman-adv) and
Stephen Rothwell (drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c).
The net/mac80211/mlme.c conflict seemed easy enough, accounting for a
conversion to some new tracing macros.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the gateway functionality is used, some broadcast packets (DHCP
requests) may be transmitted as unicast packets. As the bridge loop
avoidance code now only considers the payload Ethernet destination,
it may drop the DHCP request for clients which are claimed by other
backbone gateways, because it falsely infers from the broadcast address
that the right backbone gateway should havehandled the broadcast.
Fix this by checking and delegating the batman-adv packet type used
for transmission.
Reported-by: Guido Iribarren <guidoiribarren@buenosaireslibre.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
The reserved fields in batman-adv packets are not set to a constant value. The
content of these memory regions is leaked unintentionally to the network.
This regression was introduced in 3b27ffb00f
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
The "bat_" prefix in the source files implementing the batman-adv sysfs and
debugfs interface doesn't have a special meaning and are only used by these
files and files that implement the actual B.A.T.M.A.N. path finding algorithm.
The prefix is better suited to mark files that are used to implement the main
part of the path finding. All other files should not use it and therefore gets
renamed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
The linux Documentation/CodingStyle says that:
* Chapter 12: "inline functions are preferable to macros resembling functions"
* Chapter 12.2: Depending on local variables with a magic name is bad
* Chapter 12.3: Macros with arguments used as l-value are bad
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Instead of adding a new bool argument each time it is needed, it is better (and
simpler) to pass an 8bit flag argument which contains all the needed flags
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
During an OGM-interval (time between two different OGM sendings) the same client
could roam away and then roam back to us. In this case the node would add two
events to the events list (that is going to be sent appended to the next OGM). A
DEL one and an ADD one. Obviously they will only increase the overhead (either in
the air and on the receiver side) and eventually trigger wrong states/events
without producing any real effect.
For this reason we can safely delete any ADD event with its related DEL one.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
