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Sven Eckelmann
951c44e0db Staging: batman-adv: Use kernel functions to identify broadcasts
linux/etherdevice.h already provides functions to classify different
ethernet addresses. These inlineable functions should be used instead of
custom functions.

The check for multicast together with multicast can also be replaced
with a single test for multicast because for every ethernet address x
following is always true:

is_broadcast_ether_addr(x) => is_multicast_ether_addr(x)

or when looking more at the implementation:

(FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF == x) => [(01:00:00:00:00:00 & x) != 00:00:00:00:00:00]

Reported-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:14 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
8cab2fbe6d Staging: batman-adv: Use kernel version min macro
The kernel headers already provide different versions of a min/max macro
which should be used by all modules according to
Documentation/CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:14 -08:00
Marek Lindner
003db3b2ad Staging: batman-adv: add gateway IPv6 support by filtering DHCPv6 messages
Some additional checks will be needed in case of extension headers
like the fragmentation or hop-by-hop (for jumbo frames for example)
headers or ipsec stuff. But this patch should do for most people
for now, the rest can be added with a later one.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:14 -08:00
Marek Lindner
c9c556b63b Staging: batman-adv: best gw DHCP filter 802.1Q support
The DHCP filter inspects packets to determine whether or not to send
them via ethernet unicast. This patch adds 802.1Q (vlan) support for
this check.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:14 -08:00
Marek Lindner
6c3a42db6c Staging: batman-adv: send DHCP requests directly to the chosen gw
If the gateway client mode is active batman-adv will send the
broadcasted DHCP requests via unicast to the currently selected best
gateway. Therefore attached clients can profit from batman's knowledge
about the network topology.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:13 -08:00
Marek Lindner
dfaf9dd345 Staging: batman-adv: adding gateway functionality
Via the /sys filesystem you can change the gateway mode of a node using
gw_mode. Adjustments to it can be done using gw_bandwidth for server
mode and gw_sel_class for client mode.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:13 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
7a18deb7b0 Staging: batman-adv: Limit spin_locks to spin_lock_bh
spin_lock_irqsave disables the IRQs and stores them inside the flags
provided by the caller. This is needed to protect a bottom half handler
or a user context critical section from being interrupted by an
interrupt handler which also tries to acquire the spinlock and locks
forever.

The linux device drivers will receive the packets inside an interrupt
handler and the network infrastructure will process them inside bottom
half. Thus batman-adv will only run in user context and bottom half
handlers. We can conclude that batman-adv doesn't share its own
spinlocks with real interrupt handlers.

This makes it possible to exchange the quite complex spin_lock_irqsave
with spin_lock_bh which only stops bottom halves from running on the
current cpu, but allows interrupt handlers to take over to keep the
interrupt latency low.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:13 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
bd204952cf Staging: batman-adv: Rewrite hash using hlist_*
The hash implementation is a complete implementation of a hash using
buckets as hash entries and overflow buckets attached to them.

The kernel already provides datastructures hlist_head and hlist_node
which can be used to implement an hash using lists as hash buckets. So
it is better to implement heavily used functionality on top of those
instead of providing a full hash implementation.

The rewrite changes the behavior of some functions slightly:
 * hash_add add elements to the front instead of the tail
 * hash_iterate doesn't provide pointer to access bucket->data directly,
   but it can be accessed using hlist_entry

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:13 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
a3238c3b37 Staging: batman-adv: Make hash_iterate inlineable
hash_iterate is next to the function pointers the most called function
related to hashes which benefits from inlining as it is uses in loops.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:12 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
60eb502436 Staging: batman-adv: Move hash callback related function to header
To enable inlining of the function pointers hashdata_choose_cb,
hashdata_choose_cb and hashdata_free_cb, also the hash functions which
uses them must be inlined by the called function.

This should increase the performance, but also increases the size of the
generated machine code slightly.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:12 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
6d5e654240 Staging: batman-adv: Remove hashdata_choose_cb from hash
Function pointers cannot be inlined by a compiler and thus always has
the overhead of an call. hashdata_choose_cb's are one of the most often
called function pointers and its overhead must kept relative low.

As first step, every function which uses this function pointer takes it
as parameter instead of storing it inside the hash abstraction
structure.

This not generate any performance gain right now. The called functions
must also be able to be inlined by the calling functions to enable
inlining of the function pointer.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:12 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
51f3d8a27c Staging: batman-adv: Remove hashdata_compare_cb from hash
Function pointers cannot be inlined by a compiler and thus always has
the overhead of an call. hashdata_compare_cb's are one of the most often
called function pointers and its overhead must kept relative low.

As first step, every function which uses this function pointer takes it
as parameter instead of storing it inside the hash abstraction
structure.

This not generate any performance gain right now. The called functions
must also be able to be inlined by the calling functions to enable
inlining of the function pointer.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:12 -08:00
Linus Lüssing
1341a00ad3 Staging: batman-adv: Make hop_penalty configurable via sysfs
When having a mixed topology of both very mobile and rather static
nodes, you are usually best advised to set the originator interval on
all nodes to a level best suited for the most mobile node.

However, if most of the nodes are rather static, this can create a lot
of undesired overhead as a trade-off then. If setting the interval too
low on the static nodes, a mobile node might be chosen as a router for
too long, not switching away from it fast enough because of its
mobility and the low frequency of ogms of static nodes.

Exposing the hop_penalty is especially useful for the stated scenario: A
static node can keep the default originator interval, a mobile node can
select a quicker one resulting in faster route updates towards this
mobile node. Additionally, such a mobile node could select a higher hop
penalty (or even set it to 255 to disable acting as a router for other
nodes) to make it less desirable, letting other nodes avoid selecting
this mobile node as a router.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:11 -08:00
Linus Lüssing
1623948f87 Staging: batman-adv: Ommit storing struct device in sysfs functions
We actually do not need an extra struct device variable, therefore
replacing them with defines that directly get the bat_priv or
net_device. This further reduces the code size in bat_sysfs.c and
especially shortens some macros.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:11 -08:00
Linus Lüssing
add9e17227 Staging: batman-adv: Wrapper functions for sysfs storing
Sysfs configuration options that just took a boolean value
(enable(d)/disable(d)/0/1) and integer setting basically all had the same
structure.

To avoid even more copy and pasting in the future and to make introducing
new configuration parameters for batman-adv simpler, more generic
wrapper functions are being introduced with this commit. They can deal with
boolean and unsigned integer parameters, storing them in the specified
atomic_t variables.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:11 -08:00
Linus Lüssing
641ee3f8f4 Staging: batman-adv: Unify sysfs file names with their bat_priv atomics
Both sysfs entries and variable names shall be as descriptive as
possible while not exceeding a certain length. This patch renames
bat_priv atomics to be equally descriptive with their according sysfs
entries.

Unifying sysfs and bat_priv atomic names also makes it easier to find
each others pendant.

The reduced ("type"-)information which was previously indicated with a
_enabled for booleans got substituted by a comment in bat_priv.

This patch has also been done in regards for the future BAT_ATTR_*
macros (they only need one name argument instead of a file and variable
name).

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:11 -08:00
Marek Lindner
420193573f Staging: batman-adv: softif bridge loop avoidance
By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet
segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged
into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop
involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment:

node1  <-- LAN  -->  node2
   |                   |
 wifi  <-- mesh -->  wifi

Packets from the LAN (e.g. ARP broadcasts) will circle forever from
node1 or node2 over the mesh back into the LAN.

This patch adds the functionality to detect other batman-adv nodes
connected to the LAN and select a 'gateway' to talk to the
non-batman-adv devices on this LAN. All traffic from and to the mesh
will be handled by this gateway to avoid the loop. OGMs received via
the soft-interface are interpreted as 'port announcements' to locate
potential batman-adv nodes. The patch can also deal with vlans on
top of batX and offers a list of LAN neighbors via debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:11 -08:00
Andreas Langer
225f7b0b95 Staging: batman-adv: reassemble fragmented skb if mtu allows it
Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:10 -08:00
Andreas Langer
9061109ab1 Staging: batman-adv: fragment forwarded packets
If a packet is too big to be forwarded over an interface it will be
fragmented on-the-fly (if fragmentation is enabled).

Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:10 -08:00
Andreas Langer
b8cd75445e Staging: batman-adv: remove redundant is_my_mac() check in route_unicast_packet
Callers should check the if the received packet is for us before it
calls route_unicast_packet.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:10 -08:00
Andreas Langer
f3cc7595d2 Staging: batman-adv: move skb reassembly of fragmented packets into dedicated function
Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:10 -08:00
Andreas Langer
8bbde32cf5 Staging: batman-adv: add frag_ prefix to all fragmentation related functions
Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:09 -08:00
Andreas Langer
49b588e79f Staging: batman-adv: restructure fragmentation to handle batman unicast packets
The unicast_frag_send_skb() function expected 'raw' packets (without any
batman-adv header) to fragment them. This needs to be changed, so that
this function is able to fragment packets that already traveled inside
the mesh but need to be fragmented now.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:09 -08:00
Marek Lindner
3f427604d6 Staging: batman-adv: use rcu callbacks when freeing batman_if
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:09 -08:00
Marek Lindner
b4abfcd4c7 Staging: batman-adv: convert batman_if custom refcounting to kref functions
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:09 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
bd27509f49 Staging: batman-adv: Don't remove interface with spinlock held
We call a lot of the netdevice code when holding if_list_lock which will
spin the whole time. This is not necessary because we only want to
protect the access to the list to be serialized. An extra queue can be
used which hold all interfaces which should be removed and then use that
queue without any locks for netdevice cleanup.

Reported-by: Rafal Lesniak <lesniak@eresi-project.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:09 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
43fc987224 Staging: batman-adv: Add new sysfs files to README
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:08 -08:00
Marek Lindner
2f1646788f Staging: batman-adv: ensure that eth_type_trans gets linear memory
eth_type_trans tries to pull data with the length of the ethernet header
from the skb. We only ensured that enough data for the first ethernet
header and the batman header is available in non-paged memory of the skb
and not for the ethernet after the batman header.

eth_type_trans would fail sometimes with drivers which don't ensure that
all there data is perfectly linearised.

Reported-by: Rafal Lesniak <lesniak@eresi-project.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:08 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
4f26559156 Staging: batman-adv: Replace Andrew Lunn as Staging maintainer
Andrew Lunn didn't submit patches to staging since a while and may not
be the right person for new patches.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 11:09:08 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
491acf0032 Staging: Merge 2.6.37-rc2 into staging-next
This was necessary in order  to resolve some conflicts that happened
between -rc1 and -rc2 with the following files:
	drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
	drivers/staging/intel_sst/intel_sst_app_interface.c

All should be resolved now.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-16 10:44:50 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6174c3496d Revert "staging: batman-adv: Use linux/etherdevice.h address helper functions"
This reverts commit 5712dc7fc8.

Turns out the batman maintainers didn't like the implementation of it,
and the original author was going to rework it to meet their approval,
and I applied it without fully realizing all of this.

My fault.

Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-10 17:08:26 -08:00
Marek Lindner
4d774a7fed Staging: batman-adv: suppress false warning when changing the mac address
Whenever the mac address of an batman interface is changed
check_known_mac_addr() is called to print a warning if the newly added
mac address exists an another batman interface. While looping through
the batman interface list check_known_mac_addr() only compares mac
addresses and does not make sure they belong to different interfaces,
thus always printing a warning.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-09 16:21:27 -08:00
Chris Lang
f581cf21b4 Staging: batman-adv: fix interface alternating and bonding reggression
55d1666b521cbed95924c8d4775fe272c103f08c incidentally disabled bonding
of packets first entering the mesh along with also disabling interface
alternating regardless of where the packet came from. This re-enables
these options.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lang <clang@gateworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-09 16:21:27 -08:00
Tobias Klauser
5712dc7fc8 staging: batman-adv: Use linux/etherdevice.h address helper functions
Replace custom ethernet address check functions by calls to the helpers
in linux/etherdevice.h

In one case where the address was tested for broadcast and multicast
address, the broadcast address check can be omitted as broadcast is also
a multicast address.

The patch is only compile-tested.

Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-09 16:07:07 -08:00
Sven Eckelmann
e38b67c7cd Staging: batman-adv: Remove useless braces
77099f0afe added changes to vis.c which
trigger a checkpatch.pl warning about braces which are not necessary
anymore.

WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
+               if (entry->primary)
[...]
+               else {
[...]

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-09 15:32:28 -08:00
Andy Shevchenko
77099f0afe staging: batman-adv: remove useless addr_to_string()
Since all *printf() methods in the kernel understand '%pM' modifier the
conversion to the string is useless beforehand.

Additionally this patch decreases batman_if structure by 20 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-20 15:48:40 -07:00
Marek Lindner
1bc80e9527 Staging: batman-adv: process OGMs bigger than MAX_AGGREGATION_BYTES
Reported-by: Sam Yeung <sam.cwyeung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:16 -07:00
Marek Lindner
15f00687e3 Staging: batman-adv: fix crash when new OGM is generated
If aggregation is not enabled the local translation table can grow
much bigger and expects to fill a full ethernet packet.

Reported-by: Sam Yeung <sam.cwyeung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:16 -07:00
Marek Lindner
24fb009bae Staging: batman-adv: protect against ogm packet overflow by checking table length
Reported-by: Sam Yeung <sam.cwyeung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:16 -07:00
Marek Lindner
3c45603024 Staging: batman-adv: document fragmentation sysfs API
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:16 -07:00
Linus Lüssing
5dfa2ba9e6 Staging: batman-adv: Fix resizing of broadcast seqno buffers on if deletion
Not only the entries of the deleted interface got erased, but also all
ones with a lower if_num. This commit fixes this issue by setting the
destination appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:16 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
9b37bc2c71 Staging: batman-adv: Don't dereference unchecked incoming soft_iface
send_packet derefenced forw_packet->if_incoming and checked if
forw_packet->if_incoming is NULL.

This cannot happen, but still makes irritates when reading through the
functions.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:16 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
1ee600ced3 Staging: batman-adv: Add hash recommendations to TODO
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> recommended in
20100924.134334.28812338.davem@davemloft.net that we must make the hash
abstraction helper more efficient and may remove it completely.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-19 10:04:15 -07:00
Tracey Dent
8996ba139e Staging: batman-adv: Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
Changed <module>-objs to <module>-y n Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-08 07:23:53 -07:00
Marek Lindner
037dafa867 Staging: batman-adv: Introduce update_primary_addr to update mac address
set_primary_if is currently misused to update the mac address in vis
packets. This unneeded and introduces overhead due to other operations
which must be done when updating the primary interface.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20 16:29:51 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
7e8158b341 Staging: batman-adv: Track references of batman_if in set_primary_if
set_primary_if exchanges the current primary interfaces with a new one.
This is a new reference and thus we have to count it and decrease the
count of the old primary interface.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20 16:29:50 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
399fb5b445 Staging: batman-adv: count batman_if list queries as reference
The return of get_batman_if_by_netdev and get_active_batman_if leaks a
pointer from the rcu protected list of interfaces. We must protect it to
prevent a too early release of the memory. Those functions must increase
the reference counter before rcu_read_unlock or it may be to late to
prevent a free.

hardif_add_interface must also increase the reference count for the
returned batman_if to make the behaviour consistent.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20 16:29:50 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
47f621dddc Staging: batman-adv: Use refcnt to track usage count of batman_if
get_batman_if_by_netdev and get_active_batman_if may leak data from the
rcu protected list of interfaces. The rcu protected list of all gateway
nodes leaks the actual data outside the read-side critical area. This is
not valid as we may free the data using a call_rcu created callback
after we unlock using rcu_read_unlock. A workaround is to provide a
reference count to be sure that the memory isn't freed to early.

It is currently only to implement the already existing functionality and
doesn't provide the full tracking of all usage cases.

Additionally, we must hardif_hold inside the
rcu_read_lock()..rcu_read_unlock() before we attach to the structure
which "leaks" it. When another function now removed it from its usage
context (primary_if, usage on stack, ...) then we must hardif_put it. If
it is decremented to zero then we can issue the call_rcu to the freeing
function. So "put" is not allowed inside an rcu_read_lock.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20 16:29:50 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
16f9530e99 Staging: batman-adv: Use synchronize_rcu instead of call_rcu
It is recommended [1] to use synchronize_rcu to simplify the code -
especially when otherwise extra locking is needed to protect other code
from picking stale elements. It also protects us for emitting to many
callbacks which may results in OOM conditions.

The only reason not to use it, would be in performance critical sections
or when we are not allowed to block.

[1] Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20 16:29:49 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
952c699c06 Staging: batman-adv: Remove unneeded rcu_read_lock
Regions which do not use rcu functions don't need to protected by
rcu_read_lock. If we want to protect data from being freed than it must
be covered by the same read-side critical section or otherwise the grace
period may already ended and freed the memory before we called
rcu_read_lock again.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20 16:29:49 -07:00