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Johannes Berg
ef422bc0ae mac80211: consolidate deauth/disassoc
deauth and disassoc frames are completely identical so there's
little point in having two functions to send them rather than
one that gets a parameter. This same a bit of code size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9ac19a9084 mac80211: reorder frame code in mlme
This reorders all frame sending functions to be at the top of the
file. When reading the file, I tend to be looking at either the
frame code or the state machine, and having them mixed in the file
is confusing. When all frame sending is at the top the remainder
of the file is more readable, in my opinion.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:38 -04:00
Johannes Berg
b079ada7dd mac80211: remove useless 'ibss' parameter
Ever since we refactored beaconing to not be controlled by a
fake queue this parameter to ieee80211_sta_def_wmm_params
has been unused.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
a0fe8b3349 mac80211: simplify scan start
ieee80211_sta_start_scan() can very well take a non-NULL
ssid pointer with a zero ssid_len.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9116dd0112 mac80211: clarify scan request
When a scan is requested for non-STA interfaces, we simply fire
off a scan, but for STA interfaces we shouldn't because they
could be in the middle of an association. This clarifies the
corresponding code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
bacac545f1 mac80211: move some HT code out of main.c
Now that I've created ht.c, I can move the aggregation
code from main.c into it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
44d414dbff mac80211: move some HT code out of mlme.c
Some of the HT code in mlme.c is misplaced:
 * constants/definitions belong to the ieee80211.h header
 * code being used in other modes as well shouldn't be there

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5484e23749 mac80211: move BSS handling to scan code
This moves all the BSS list handling out of mlme.c to scan.c,
no further changes except fixing kzalloc/atomic_inc/atomic_inc
to kzalloc/atomic_set(2).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
98c8fccfae mac80211: refactor and move scan RX code
This patch refactors some code and moves the scan RX function
to scan.c. More importantly, however, it changes it so that the
MLME's beacon/probe_resp functions aren't invoked when scanning
so that we can remove a "if (scanning)" conditions from two
places.

There's a very slight behavioural change in this patch: now,
when scanning, IBSS and mesh aren't updated even on the same
channel.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg
0a51b27e95 mac80211: start moving scan code from mlme
Here's a first patch to move some code from mlme.c to a
new file called scan.c. The end result will hopefully be
a more manageable mlme.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
ee96d6ef82 mac80211: remove useless non-NULL tests from scan results code
I'm surprised nobody complained about these before. What a waste.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
491775a507 mac80211: use sdata pointer for scan interface
Since we now use sdata pointers most of the time, using a netdev
pointer here is somewhat artificial, use an sdata pointer instead.
Replace a netdev-prefix in a few messages by a wiphy-prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
60f8b39c94 mac80211: reorder mlme code
This reorders the mlme code a bit so we don't need all the forward
function declarations. It also removes the ERP_INFO_USE_PROTECTION
define that is unused, but otherwise contains no real changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
24e64622c3 mac80211: stop queues before carrier off
During testing of the disassociation fixes, Tomas noticed that it
was possible to run into a situation where you'd suddenly get a
few "wlan0: dropped frame to <AP> (unauthorized port)" messages
and I found this to be due to the AP's sta_info having been
removed but netif_carrier_off not having removed/stopped traffic
yet. To avoid that, stop the queue for the interface (and avoid
bringing them up when another vif scans when they weren't up.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
f5e5bf258b mac80211: remove disassociation code from ieee80211_set_associated
This patch moves disassociation code from ieee80211_set_associated
to ieee80211_set_disassoc. To reduce code duplication, it introduces
the ieee80211_sta_send_apinfo function. Additionally, it fixes a lapse
where BSS_CHANGED_HT wasn't set when notifying the driver of changes
due to disassociation.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:36 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
3b7ee69d0c mac80211: disassociate when moving to new BSS
This patch makes the MLME cleanly disassociate from the current BSS
when leaving it for a new one. This is not just nicer to the old AP
(we're leaving it, might as well tell it!) but also required for some
drivers that keep track of the station we're associated with, they'd
get confused because they'd think we are associated with two APs.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
aa458d1737 mac80211: restructure disassoc/deauth flows
This patch restructure the flow of disassociation and deauthentication
flows to be consistent under all circumstances.
It ensures that BA session is treated down before deauthentication or disassociation,
adds the removal of the obsolete sta form station table and fixes a related bug (sta_info_destroy
without sta_info_unlink) in ieee80211_associated()
and reduce some code duplication

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
37ffc8da80 mac80211: move IE parsing to util file
Since IE parsing is required for the mlme and mesh code, it's
not a static function anyway, and it's much better to have it
in util rather than the overly large mlme.c

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5fd12d4da1 mac80211: fix typo in action frame handling
This says chan_switch.action_code but really means
measurement.action_code, of course the actual offset in
the frame is the same, it's just harder to understand
this way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9c80d3dc27 mac80211: fix action frame length checks
The action frame length checks are one too small, there's not just
an action code as the comment makes you believe, there's a category
code too, and the category code is required in each action frame
(hence part of IEEE80211_MIN_ACTION_SIZE).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5bda617576 mac80211: BSS info: check channel first
When we receive information about a BSS we check at some point
whether or not we think we're allowed to use the channel it is
on, but we do that fairly late. I don't think we should do it
that late, so do it earlier to avoid doing IBSS/mesh stuff on
that channel and then getting confused because it's disabled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
fe3fa82731 mac80211: make conf_tx non-atomic
The conf_tx callback currently needs to be atomic, this requirement
is just because it can be called from scanning. This rearranges it
slightly to only update while not scanning (which is fine, we'll be
getting beacons when associated) and thus removes the atomic
requirement.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg
69e6c010fd mac80211: move some RCU locking into an if branch
The if itself doesn't need to be protected, so move in the RCU
locking to avoid doing anything at all when the condition isn't
true.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:34 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
00c5ae2fa0 mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS
This patch follows 11n spec naming more rigorously replacing MIMO_PS
with SM_PS (Spatial Multiplexing Power Save).

(Originally submitted as 4 patches, "mac80211: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
"iwlwifi: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS", "ath9k: change MIMO_PS to SM_PS",
and "iwlwifi: remove double definition of SM PS". -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-11 15:53:31 -04:00
David S. Miller
a40c24a133 net: Add SKB DMA mapping helper functions.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 04:51:14 -07:00
David S. Miller
1e493d1946 ipv6: On interface down/unregister, purge icmp routes too.
Johannes Berg reported that occaisionally, bringing an interface
down or unregistering it would hang for up to 30 seconds.  Using
debugging output he provided it became clear that ICMP6 routes
were the culprit.

The problem is that ICMP6 routes live in their own world totally
separate from normal ipv6 routes.  So there are all kinds of special
cases throughout the ipv6 code to handle this.

While we should really try to unify all of this stuff somehow,
for the time being let's fix this by purging the ICMP6 routes
that match the device in question during rt6_ifdown().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-10 23:39:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
08569908ff ipsec: Add missing list_del() in xfrm_state_gc_task().
Otherwise entries stay on the GC todo list forever, even after we free
them.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-09 22:13:28 -07:00
Herbert Xu
abb81c4f3c ipsec: Use RCU-like construct for saved state within a walk
Now that we save states within a walk we need synchronisation
so that the list the saved state is on doesn't disappear from
under us.

As it stands this is done by keeping the state on the list which
is bad because it gets in the way of the management of the state
life-cycle.

An alternative is to make our own pseudo-RCU system where we use
counters to indicate which state can't be freed immediately as
it may be referenced by an ongoing walk when that resumes.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-09 19:58:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
dacc62dbf5 Merge branch 'lvs-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/lvs-2.6 2008-09-09 19:51:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
47abf28d5b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-09-09 19:28:03 -07:00
Simon Horman
c051a0a2c9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 into lvs-next-2.6 2008-09-10 09:14:52 +10:00
David S. Miller
28faa97974 ipsec: Make xfrm_larval_drop default to 1.
The previous default behavior is definitely the least user
friendly.  Hanging there forever just because the keying
daemon is wedged or the refreshing of the policy can't move
forward is anti-social to say the least.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-09 16:08:51 -07:00
Neil Horman
e550dfb0c2 ipv6: Fix OOPS in ip6_dst_lookup_tail().
This fixes kernel bugzilla 11469: "TUN with 1024 neighbours:
ip6_dst_lookup_tail NULL crash"

dst->neighbour is not necessarily hooked up at this point
in the processing path, so blindly dereferencing it is
the wrong thing to do.  This NULL check exists in other
similar paths and this case was just an oversight.

Also fix the completely wrong and confusing indentation
here while we're at it.

Based upon a patch by Evgeniy Polyakov.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-09 13:51:35 -07:00
Herbert Xu
225f40055f ipsec: Restore larval states and socket policies in dump
The commit commit 4c563f7669 ("[XFRM]:
Speed up xfrm_policy and xfrm_state walking") inadvertently removed
larval states and socket policies from netlink dumps.  This patch
restores them.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-09 05:23:37 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
410e27a49b This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp"
as it accentally contained the wrong set of patches. These will be
submitted separately.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
David S. Miller
fd9ec7d31f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6 2008-09-09 02:11:11 -07:00
Marcel Holtmann
e7c29cb16c [Bluetooth] Reject L2CAP connections on an insecure ACL link
The Security Mode 4 of the Bluetooth 2.1 specification has strict
authentication and encryption requirements. It is the initiators job
to create a secure ACL link. However in case of malicious devices, the
acceptor has to make sure that the ACL is encrypted before allowing
any kind of L2CAP connection. The only exception here is the PSM 1 for
the service discovery protocol, because that is allowed to run on an
insecure ACL link.

Previously it was enough to reject a L2CAP connection during the
connection setup phase, but with Bluetooth 2.1 it is forbidden to
do any L2CAP protocol exchange on an insecure link (except SDP).

The new hci_conn_check_link_mode() function can be used to check the
integrity of an ACL link. This functions also takes care of the cases
where Security Mode 4 is disabled or one of the devices is based on
an older specification.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2008-09-09 07:19:20 +02:00
Marcel Holtmann
09ab6f4c23 [Bluetooth] Enforce correct authentication requirements
With the introduction of Security Mode 4 and Simple Pairing from the
Bluetooth 2.1 specification it became mandatory that the initiator
requires authentication and encryption before any L2CAP channel can
be established. The only exception here is PSM 1 for the service
discovery protocol (SDP). It is meant to be used without any encryption
since it contains only public information. This is how Bluetooth 2.0
and before handle connections on PSM 1.

For Bluetooth 2.1 devices the pairing procedure differentiates between
no bonding, general bonding and dedicated bonding. The L2CAP layer
wrongly uses always general bonding when creating new connections, but it
should not do this for SDP connections. In this case the authentication
requirement should be no bonding and the just-works model should be used,
but in case of non-SDP connection it is required to use general bonding.

If the new connection requires man-in-the-middle (MITM) protection, it
also first wrongly creates an unauthenticated link key and then later on
requests an upgrade to an authenticated link key to provide full MITM
protection. With Simple Pairing the link key generation is an expensive
operation (compared to Bluetooth 2.0 and before) and doing this twice
during a connection setup causes a noticeable delay when establishing
a new connection. This should be avoided to not regress from the expected
Bluetooth 2.0 connection times. The authentication requirements are known
up-front and so enforce them.

To fulfill these requirements the hci_connect() function has been extended
with an authentication requirement parameter that will be stored inside
the connection information and can be retrieved by userspace at any
time. This allows the correct IO capabilities exchange and results in
the expected behavior.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2008-09-09 07:19:20 +02:00
Marcel Holtmann
f1c08ca559 [Bluetooth] Fix reference counting during ACL config stage
The ACL config stage keeps holding a reference count on incoming
connections when requesting the extended features. This results in
keeping an ACL link up without any users. The problem here is that
the Bluetooth specification doesn't define an ownership of the ACL
link and thus it can happen that the implementation on the initiator
side doesn't care about disconnecting unused links. In this case the
acceptor needs to take care of this.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2008-09-09 07:19:19 +02:00
David S. Miller
0a68a20cc3 Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp
Conflicts:

	net/dccp/input.c
	net/dccp/options.c
2008-09-08 17:28:59 -07:00
David S. Miller
17dce5dfe3 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2008-09-08 16:59:05 -07:00
Sven Wegener
e9c0ce232e ipvs: Embed user stats structure into kernel stats structure
Instead of duplicating the fields, integrate a user stats structure into
the kernel stats structure. This is more robust when the members are
changed, because they are now automatically kept in sync.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Reviewed-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-09 09:53:08 +10:00
Sven Wegener
2206a3f5b7 ipvs: Restrict connection table size via Kconfig
Instead of checking the value in include/net/ip_vs.h, we can just
restrict the range in our Kconfig file. This will prevent values outside
of the range early.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Reviewed-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-09 09:50:55 +10:00
Julius Volz
9d7f2a2b1a IPVS: Remove incorrect ip_route_me_harder(), fix IPv6
Remove an incorrect ip_route_me_harder() that was probably a result of
merging my IPv6 patches with the local client patches. With this, IPv6+NAT
are working again.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-09 09:43:13 +10:00
Simon Horman
503e81f65a ipvs: handle PARTIAL_CHECKSUM
Now that LVS can load balance locally generated traffic, packets may come
from the loopback device and thus may have a partial checksum.

The existing code allows for the case where there is no checksum at all for
TCP, however Herbert Xu has confirmed that this is not legal.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
2008-09-09 09:36:32 +10:00
Alexey Dobriyan
712d6954e3 netns bridge: cleanup bridges during netns stop
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-08 16:20:18 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4aa678ba44 netns bridge: allow bridges in netns!
Bridge as netdevice doesn't cross netns boundaries.

Bridge ports and bridge itself live in same netns.

Notifiers are fixed.

netns propagated from userspace socket for setup and teardown.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-08 16:19:58 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
5337407c67 warn: Turn the netdev timeout WARN_ON() into a WARN()
this patch turns the netdev timeout WARN_ON_ONCE() into a WARN_ONCE(),
so that the device and driver names are inside the warning message.
This helps automated tools like kerneloops.org to collect the data
and do statistics, as well as making it more likely that humans
cut-n-paste the important message as part of a bugreport.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-08 16:17:42 -07:00
David S. Miller
9bff9dbd00 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-09-08 16:10:53 -07:00
Herbert Xu
e2a6b85247 net: Enable TSO if supported by at least one device
As it stands users of netdev_compute_features (e.g., bridges/bonding)
will only enable TSO if all consituent devices support it.  This
is unnecessarily pessimistic since even on devices that do not
support hardware TSO and SG, emulated TSO still performs to a par
with TSO off.

This patch enables TSO if at least on constituent device supports
it in hardware.

The direct beneficiaries will be virtualisation that uses bridging
since this means that TSO will always be enabled for communication
from the host to the guests.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-08 16:10:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bcbc713470 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  bridge: don't allow setting hello time to zero
  netns : fix kernel panic in timewait socket destruction
  pkt_sched: Fix qdisc state in net_tx_action()
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: make sure string is terminated before calling simple_strtoul
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_gre: nf_ct_gre_keymap_flush() fixlet
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_gre: more locking around keymap list
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: de-static helper pointers
2008-09-08 15:43:44 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
8d4698f7a5 bridge: don't allow setting hello time to zero
Dushan Tcholich reports that on his system ksoftirqd can consume
between %6 to %10 of cpu time, and cause ~200 context switches per
second.

He then correlated this with a report by bdupree@techfinesse.com:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119613299024398&w=2

and the culprit cause seems to be starting the bridge interface.
In particular, when starting the bridge interface, his scripts
are specifying a hello timer interval of "0".

The bridge hello time can't be safely set to values less than 1
second, otherwise it is possible to end up with a runaway timer.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-08 13:46:54 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano
d315492b1a netns : fix kernel panic in timewait socket destruction
How to reproduce ?
 - create a network namespace
 - use tcp protocol and get timewait socket
 - exit the network namespace
 - after a moment (when the timewait socket is destroyed), the kernel
   panics.

# BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000007
IP: [<ffffffff821e394d>] inet_twdr_do_twkill_work+0x6e/0xb8
PGD 119985067 PUD 11c5c0067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: ipv6 button battery ac loop dm_mod tg3 libphy ext3 jbd
edd fan thermal processor thermal_sys sg sata_svw libata dock serverworks
sd_mod scsi_mod ide_disk ide_core [last unloaded: freq_table]
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc2 #3
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff821e394d>] [<ffffffff821e394d>]
inet_twdr_do_twkill_work+0x6e/0xb8
RSP: 0018:ffff88011ff7fed0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffffffffffff RBX: ffffffff82339420 RCX: ffff88011ff7ff30
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff88011a4d03c0 RDI: ffff88011ac2fc00
RBP: ffffffff823392e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88002802a200
R10: ffff8800a5c4b000 R11: ffffffff823e4080 R12: ffff88011ac2fc00
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000041cbd940(0000) GS:ffff8800bff839c0(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000007 CR3: 00000000bd87c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff8800bff9e000, task
ffff88011ff76690)
Stack: ffffffff823392e0 0000000000000100 ffffffff821e3a3a
0000000000000008
0000000000000000 ffffffff821e3a61 ffff8800bff7c000 ffffffff8203c7e7
ffff88011ff7ff10 ffff88011ff7ff10 0000000000000021 ffffffff82351108
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff821e3a3a>] ? inet_twdr_hangman+0x0/0x9e
[<ffffffff821e3a61>] ? inet_twdr_hangman+0x27/0x9e
[<ffffffff8203c7e7>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x12c/0x193
[<ffffffff820390d1>] ? __do_softirq+0x5e/0xcd
[<ffffffff8200d08c>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
[<ffffffff8200e611>] ? do_softirq+0x2c/0x68
[<ffffffff8201a055>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xa9
[<ffffffff8200cad6>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x70
<EOI> [<ffffffff82011f4c>] ? default_idle+0x27/0x3b
[<ffffffff8200abbd>] ? cpu_idle+0x5f/0x7d


Code: e8 01 00 00 4c 89 e7 41 ff c5 e8 8d fd ff ff 49 8b 44 24 38 4c 89 e7
65 8b 14 25 24 00 00 00 89 d2 48 8b 80 e8 00 00 00 48 f7 d0 <48> 8b 04 d0
48 ff 40 58 e8 fc fc ff ff 48 89 df e8 c0 5f 04 00
RIP [<ffffffff821e394d>] inet_twdr_do_twkill_work+0x6e/0xb8
RSP <ffff88011ff7fed0>
CR2: 0000000000000007

This patch provides a function to purge all timewait sockets related
to a network namespace. The timewait sockets life cycle is not tied with
the network namespace, that means the timewait sockets stay alive while
the network namespace dies. The timewait sockets are for avoiding to
receive a duplicate packet from the network, if the network namespace is
freed, the network stack is removed, so no chance to receive any packets
from the outside world. Furthermore, having a pending destruction timer
on these sockets with a network namespace freed is not safe and will lead
to an oops if the timer callback which try to access data belonging to 
the namespace like for example in:
	inet_twdr_do_twkill_work
		-> NET_INC_STATS_BH(twsk_net(tw), LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITED);

Purging the timewait sockets at the network namespace destruction will:
 1) speed up memory freeing for the namespace
 2) fix kernel panic on asynchronous timewait destruction

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-08 13:17:27 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
701b9cb37b mac80211: add missing kernel-doc
Fix mac80211 kernel-doc missing struct field:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc1-git2//net/mac80211/sta_info.h:329): No description found for parameter 'tid_seq[IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK + 1]'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:23:12 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
8e1535d51b mac80211: Fix rate scale initialization in IBSS
This patch address some IBSS rate issues introduced or not covered
by "mac80211: eliminate IBSS warning in rate_lowest_index()" and
"cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion".

This patch:
1. Moves addition of IBSS station from
prepare_for_handlers to ieee80211_rx_bss_info when triggered from beacon
eliminating bogus supported rates.
2. Initialize properly supported rates also in IBSS merging
3. Ensure that mandatory rates are always added into supported
rates. This is needed in case when station addition is triggered from
non beacon/probe packet. Some management frames need to be sent
4. Remove initialization of supported rates from self rates. This path
was dead code after 6bc37c06bc4 and in general incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:22:46 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
9818babc8f mac80211: Fix low bit rate in IBSS
This patch fixes regression in iwlwifi IBSS rate scaling caused by patch:

    commit 6bc37c06bc424bcf3f944e6a79e2d5bb537e02ed
    Author: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
    Date:   Fri Jun 13 16:50:44 2008 +0200

        mac80211: eliminate IBSS warning in rate_lowest_index()

An IBSS station is added in prepare_for_handlers where the rate scaling was
initialized only with single rate matching the received packet.
The correct rate scale information should be updated only in
ieee80211_rx_bss_info function where beacon is parsed. Because
of coding error the rate info was left untouched.
If a beacon has triggered the connection the rate remined 1Mbps.
This patch fixes this coding error

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-08 14:00:18 -04:00
Jarek Poplawski
e8a83e10d7 pkt_sched: Fix qdisc state in net_tx_action()
net_tx_action() can skip __QDISC_STATE_SCHED bit clearing while qdisc
is neither ran nor rescheduled, which may cause endless loop in
dev_deactivate().

Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-07 18:41:21 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e3b802ba88 netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: make sure string is terminated before calling simple_strtoul
Alexey Dobriyan points out:

1. simple_strtoul() silently accepts all characters for given base even
   if result won't fit into unsigned long. This is amazing stupidity in
   itself, but

2. nf_conntrack_irc helper use simple_strtoul() for DCC request parsing.
   Data first copied into 64KB buffer, so theoretically nothing prevents
   reading past the end of it, since data comes from network given 1).

This is not actually a problem currently since we're guaranteed to have
a 0 byte in skb_shared_info or in the buffer the data is copied to, but
to make this more robust, make sure the string is actually terminated.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-07 18:21:24 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
51807e91a7 netfilter: nf_conntrack_gre: nf_ct_gre_keymap_flush() fixlet
It does "kfree(list_head)" which looks wrong because entity that was
allocated is definitely not list_head.

However, this all works because list_head is first item in
struct nf_ct_gre_keymap.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-07 18:20:36 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
887464a41f netfilter: nf_conntrack_gre: more locking around keymap list
gre_keymap_list should be protected in all places.
(unless I'm misreading something)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-07 18:20:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
66bf79182d netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: de-static helper pointers
Helper's ->help hook can run concurrently with itself, so iterating over
SIP helpers with static pointer won't work reliably.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-07 18:19:25 -07:00
Simon Horman
178f5e494e IPVS: use ipv6_addr_copy()
It is standard to use ipv6_addr_copy() to fill in
the in6 element of a union nf_inet_addr snet.

Thanks to Julius Volz for pointing this out.

Cc: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
2008-09-08 09:34:46 +10:00
Simon Horman
5af149cc34 IPVS: fix bogus indentation
Sorry, this was my error.
Thanks to Julius Volz for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
2008-09-08 09:34:45 +10:00
Sven Wegener
3bfb92f407 ipvs: Reject ipv6 link-local addresses for destinations
We can't use non-local link-local addresses for destinations, without
knowing the interface on which we can reach the address. Reject them for
now.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-08 09:34:45 +10:00
Sven Wegener
77eb851630 ipvs: Mark tcp/udp v4 and v6 debug functions static
They are only used in this file, so they should be static

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-08 09:34:44 +10:00
Sven Wegener
a5ba4bf273 ipvs: Return negative error values from ip_vs_edit_service()
Like the other code in this function does.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-08 09:34:44 +10:00
Sven Wegener
cd9fe6c4f0 ipvs: Use pointer to address from sync message
We want a pointer to it, not the value casted to a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Acked-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-08 09:34:43 +10:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
f59ac04816 cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modes
It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which
interface modes a given piece of hardware might support (even
if adding such an interface might fail later because of
concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211 aware of that.
For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode
when they add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <tramp.enshrine.stephen@blacksapphire.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-05 16:17:42 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bf7394ccc1 Revert "mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM"
This reverts commit 087d833e5a, which was
reported to break wireless at least in some combinations with 32bit user
space and a 64bit kernel.  Alex Williamnson bisected it to this commit.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-05 12:38:09 -07:00
Simon Horman
f2428ed5e7 ipvs: load balance ipv6 connections from a local process
This allows IPVS to load balance IPv6 connections made by a local process.
For example a proxy server running locally.

External client --> pound:443 -> Local:443 --> IPVS:80 --> RealServer

This is an extenstion to the IPv4 work done in this area
by Siim Põder and Malcolm Turnbull.

Cc: Siim Põder <siim@p6drad-teel.net>
Cc: Malcolm Turnbull <malcolm@loadbalancer.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:14 +10:00
Malcolm Turnbull
4856c84c13 ipvs: load balance IPv4 connections from a local process
This allows IPVS to load balance connections made by a local process.
For example a proxy server running locally.

External client --> pound:443 -> Local:443 --> IPVS:80 --> RealServer

Signed-off-by: Siim Põder <siim@p6drad-teel.net>
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Turnbull <malcolm@loadbalancer.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:13 +10:00
Julius Volz
f94fd04140 IPVS: Allow adding IPv6 services from userspace
Allow adding IPv6 services through the genetlink interface and add checks
to see if the chosen scheduler is supported with IPv6 and whether the
supplied prefix length is sane. Make sure the service count exported via
the sockopt interface only counts IPv4 services.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:13 +10:00
Julius Volz
473b23d37b IPVS: Activate IPv6 Netfilter hooks
Register the previously defined or adapted netfilter hook functions for
IPv6 as PF_INET6 hooks.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:13 +10:00
Julius Volz
cfc78c5a09 IPVS: Adjust various debug outputs to use new macros
Adjust various debug outputs to use the new *_BUF macro variants for
correct output of v4/v6 addresses.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:12 +10:00
Vince Busam
09571c7ae3 IPVS: Add function to determine if IPv6 address is local
Add __ip_vs_addr_is_local_v6() to find out if an IPv6 address belongs to a
local interface. Use this function to decide whether to set the
IP_VS_CONN_F_LOCALNODE flag for IPv6 destinations.

Signed-off-by: Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:12 +10:00
Julius Volz
a0eb662f9e IPVS: Turn off FTP application helper for IPv6
Immediately return from FTP application helper and do nothing when dealing
with IPv6 packets. IPv6 is not supported by this helper yet.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:11 +10:00
Julius Volz
c6883f5873 IVPS: Disable sync daemon for IPv6 connections
Disable the sync daemon for IPv6 connections, works only with IPv4 for now.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:11 +10:00
Vince Busam
667a5f1816 IPVS: Convert procfs files for IPv6 entry output
Correctly output IPv6 connection/service/dest entries in procfs files.

Signed-off-by: Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:10 +10:00
Julius Volz
7937df1564 IPVS: Convert real server lookup functions
Convert functions for looking up destinations (real servers) to support
IPv6 services/dests.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:10 +10:00
Julius Volz
2a3b791e6e IPVS: Add/adjust Netfilter hook functions and helpers for v6
Add Netfilter hook functions or modify existing ones, if possible, to
process IPv6 packets. Some support functions are also added/modified for
this. ip_vs_nat_icmp_v6() was already added in the patch that added the v6
xmit functions, as it is called from one of them.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:09 +10:00
Julius Volz
cd17f9ed09 IPVS: Extend scheduling functions for IPv6 support
Convert ip_vs_schedule() and ip_vs_sched_persist() to support scheduling of
IPv6 connections.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:09 +10:00
Julius Volz
b3cdd2a738 IPVS: Add and bind IPv6 xmit functions
Add xmit functions for IPv6. Also add the already needed __ip_vs_get_out_rt_v6()
to ip_vs_core.c. Bind the new xmit functions to v6 connections.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:08 +10:00
Julius Volz
38cdcc9a03 IPVS: Add IPv6 support to xmit() support functions
Add IPv6 support to IP_VS_XMIT() and to the xmit routing cache, introducing
a new function __ip_vs_get_out_rt_v6().

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:08 +10:00
Julius Volz
28364a59f3 IPVS: Extend functions for getting/creating connections
Extend functions for getting/creating connections and connection
templates for IPv6 support and fix the callers.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:08 +10:00
Julius Volz
0bbdd42b7e IPVS: Extend protocol DNAT/SNAT and state handlers
Extend protocol DNAT/SNAT and state handlers to work with IPv6. Also
change/introduce new checksumming helper functions for this.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:07 +10:00
Julius Volz
3b047d9d04 IPVS: Add protocol debug functions for IPv6
Add protocol (TCP, UDP, AH, ESP) debug functions for IPv6 packet debug
output.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:06 +10:00
Julius Volz
51ef348b14 IPVS: Add 'af' args to protocol handler functions
Add 'af' arguments to conn_schedule(), conn_in_get(), conn_out_get() and
csum_check() function pointers in struct ip_vs_protocol. Extend the
respective functions for TCP, UDP, AH and ESP and adjust the callers.

The changes in the callers need to be somewhat extensive, since they now
need to pass a filled out struct ip_vs_iphdr * to the modified functions
instead of a struct iphdr *.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:06 +10:00
Julius Volz
b14198f6c1 IPVS: Add IPv6 support flag to schedulers
Add 'supports_ipv6' flag to struct ip_vs_scheduler to indicate whether a
scheduler supports IPv6. Set the flag to 1 in schedulers that work with
IPv6, 0 otherwise. This flag is checked in a later patch while trying to
add a service with a specific scheduler. Adjust debug in v6-supporting
schedulers to work with both address families.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:06 +10:00
Julius Volz
3c2e0505d2 IPVS: Add v6 support to ip_vs_service_get()
Add support for selecting services based on their address family to
ip_vs_service_get() and adjust the callers.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:05 +10:00
Julius Volz
b18610de9e IPVS: Convert __ip_vs_svc_get() and __ip_vs_fwm_get()
Add support for getting services based on their address family to
__ip_vs_service_get(), __ip_vs_fwm_get() and the helper hash function
ip_vs_svc_hashkey(). Adjust the callers.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:05 +10:00
Julius Volz
c860c6b147 IPVS: Add internal versions of sockopt interface structs
Add extended internal versions of struct ip_vs_service_user and struct
ip_vs_dest_user (the originals can't be modified as they are part
of the old sockopt interface). Adjust ip_vs_ctl.c to work with the new
data structures and add some minor AF-awareness.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:04 +10:00
Julius Volz
e7ade46a53 IPVS: Change IPVS data structures to support IPv6 addresses
Introduce new 'af' fields into IPVS data structures for specifying an
entry's address family. Convert IP addresses to be of type union
nf_inet_addr.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:03 +10:00
Julius Volz
fab0de02fb IPVS: Add CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 option for IPv6 support
Add boolean config option CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 for enabling experimental IPv6
support in IPVS. Only visible if IPv6 support is set to 'y' or both IPv6
and IPVS are modules.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2008-09-05 11:17:02 +10:00
Gerrit Renker
a3cbdde8e9 dccp ccid-3: Preventing Oscillations
This implements [RFC 3448, 4.5], which performs congestion avoidance behaviour
by reducing the transmit rate as the queueing delay (measured in terms of
long-term RTT) increases.

Oscillation can be turned on/off via a module option (do_osc_prev) and via sysfs
(using mode 0644), the default is off.

Overflow analysis:
------------------
 * oscillation prevention is done after update_x(), so that t_ipi <= 64000;
 * hence the multiplication "t_ipi * sqrt(R_sample)" needs 64 bits;
 * done using u64 for sqrt_sample and explicit typecast of t_ipi;
 * the divisor, R_sqmean, is non-zero because oscillation prevention is first
   called when receiving the second feedback packet, and tfrc_scaled_rtt() > 0.

A detailed discussion of the algorithm (with plots) is on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ccid3/sender_notes/oscillation_prevention/

The algorithm has negative side effects:
  * when allowing to decrease t_ipi (leads to a large RTT) and
  * when using it during slow-start;
both uses are therefore disabled.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:43 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
53ac9570c8 dccp ccid-3: Simplify computing and range-checking of t_ipi
This patch simplifies the computation of t_ipi, avoiding expensive computations
to enforce the minimum sending rate.

Both RFC 3448 and rfc3448bis (revision #06), as well as RFC 4342 sec 5., require
at various stages that at least one packet must be sent per t_mbi = 64 seconds.
This requires frequent divisions of the type X_min = s/t_mbi, which are later
converted back into an inter-packet-interval t_ipi_max = s/X_min = t_mbi.

The patch removes the expensive indirection; in the unlikely case of having
a sending rate less than one packet per 64 seconds, it also re-adjusts X.

The following cases document conformance with RFC 3448  / rfc3448bis-06:
 1) Time until receiving the first feedback packet:
   * if the sender has no initial RTT sample then X = s/1 Bps > s/t_mbi;
   * if the sender has an initial RTT sample or when the first feedback
     packet is received, X = W_init/R > s/t_mbi.

 2) Slow-start (p == 0 and feedback packets come in):
   * RFC 3448  (current code) enforces a minimum of s/R > s/t_mbi;
   * rfc3448bis (future code) enforces an even higher minimum of W_init/R.

 3) Congestion avoidance with no absence of feedback (p > 0):
   * when X_calc or X_recv/2 are too low, the minimum of X_min = s/t_mbi
     is enforced in update_x() when calling update_send_interval();
   * update_send_interval() is, as before, only called when X changes
     (i.e. either when increasing or decreasing, not when in equilibrium).

 4) Reduction of X without prior feedback or during slow-start (p==0):
   * both RFC 3448 and rfc3448bis here halve X directly;
   * the associated constraint X >= s/t_mbi is nforced here by send_interval().

 5) Reduction of X when p > 0:
   * X is modified indirectly via X_recv (RFC 3448) or X_recv_set (rfc3448bis);
   * in both cases, control goes back to section 4.3 (in both documents);
   * since p > 0, both documents use X = max(min(...), s/t_mbi), which is
     enforced in this patch by calling send_interval() from update_x().

I think that this analysis is exhaustive. Should I have forgotten a case,
the worst-case consideration arises when X sinks below s/t_mbi, and is then
increased back up to this minimum value. Even under this assumption, the
behaviour is correct, since all lower limits of X in RFC 3448 / rfc3448bis
are either equal to or greater than s/t_mbi.

Note on the condition X >= s/t_mbi  <==> t_ipi = s/X <= t_mbi: since X is
scaled by 64, and all time units are in microseconds, the coded condition is:

    t_ipi = s * 64 * 10^6 usec / X <= 64 * 10^6 usec

This simplifies to s / X <= 1 second <==> X * 1 second >= s > 0.
(A zero `s' is not allowed by the CCID-3 code).	

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:43 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c8f41d50ad dccp ccid-3: Measuring the packet size s with regard to rfc3448bis-06
rfc3448bis allows three different ways of tracking the packet size `s': 

 1. using the MSS/MPS (at initialisation, 4.2, and in 4.1 (1));
 2. using the average of `s' (in 4.1);
 3. using the maximum of `s' (in 4.2).

Instead of hard-coding a single interpretation of rfc3448bis, this implements
a choice of all three alternatives and suggests the first as default, since it
is the option which is most consistent with other parts of the specification.

The patch further deprecates the update of t_ipi whenever `s' changes. The
gains of doing this are only small since a change of s takes effect at the
next instant X is updated:
 * when the next feedback comes in (within one RTT or less);
 * when the nofeedback timer expires (within at most 4 RTTs).
 
Further, there are complications caused by updating t_ipi whenever s changes:
 * if t_ipi had previously been updated to effect oscillation prevention (4.5),
   then it is impossible to make the same adjustment to t_ipi again, thus
   counter-acting the algorithm;
 * s may be updated any time and a modification of t_ipi depends on the current
   state (e.g. no oscillation prevention is done in the absence of feedback);
 * in rev-06 of rfc3448bis, there are more possible cases, depending on whether
   the sender is in slow-start (t_ipi <= R/W_init), or in congestion-avoidance,
   limited by X_recv or the throughput equation (t_ipi <= t_mbi).

Thus there are side effects of always updating t_ipi as s changes. These may not
be desirable. The only case I can think of where such an update makes sense is
to recompute X_calc when p > 0 and when s changes (not done by this patch).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:42 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
891e4d8a40 dccp ccid-3: Tidy up CCID-Kconfig dependencies
The per-CCID menu has several dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL. These are redundant,
since net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig is sourced by net/dccp/Kconfig and since the
latter menu in turn asserts a dependency on EXPERIMENTAL.

The patch removes the redundant dependencies as well as the repeated reference
within the sub-menu.

Further changes:
----------------
Two single dependencies on CCID-3 are replaced with a single enclosing `if'.
    
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:42 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
9d497a2c91 dccp ccid-3: Implement rfc3448bis change to initial-rate computation
The patch updates CCID-3 with regard to the latest rfc3448bis-06: 
 * in the first revisions of the draft, MSS was used for the RFC 3390 window; 
 * then (from revision #1 to revision #2), it used the packet size `s';
 * now, in this revision (and apparently final), the value is back to MSS.

This change has an implication for the case when no RTT sample is available,
at the time of sending the first packet:

 * with RTT sample, 2*MSS/RTT <= initial_rate <= 4*MSS/RTT;
 * without RTT sample, the initial rate is one packet (s bytes) per second
   (sec. 4.2), but using s instead of MSS here creates an imbalance, since
   this would further reduce the initial sending rate.

Hence the patch uses MSS (called MPS in RFC 4340) in all places.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:42 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
88e97a9334 dccp ccid-3: Update the RX history records in one place
This patch is a requirement for enabling ECN support later on. With that change
in mind, the following preparations are done:
 * renamed handle_loss() into congestion_event() since it returns true when a
   congestion event happens (it will eventually also take care of ECN packets);
 * lets tfrc_rx_congestion_event() always update the RX history records, since
   this routine needs to be called for each non-duplicate packet anyway;
 * made all involved boolean-type functions to have return type `bool';

Updating the RX history records is now only necessary for the packets received
up to sending the first feedback. The receiver code becomes again simpler.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:42 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
68c89ee535 dccp ccid-3: Update the computation of X_recv
This updates the computation of X_recv with regard to Errata 610/611 for
RFC 4342 and draft rfc3448bis-06, ensuring that at least an interval of 1
RTT is used to compute X_recv.  The change is wrapped into a new function
ccid3_hc_rx_x_recv().

Further changes:
----------------
 * feedback is not sent when no data packets arrived (bytes_recv == 0), as per
   rfc3448bis-06, 6.2;
 * take the timestamp for the feedback /after/ dccp_send_ack() returns, to avoid
   taking the transmission time into account (in case layer-2 is busy);
 * clearer handling of failure in ccid3_first_li().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:42 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
22338f09bd dccp tfrc: Increase number of RTT samples
This improves the receiver RTT sampling algorithm so that it tries harder to get
as many RTT samples as possible. 

The algorithm is based the concepts presented in RFC 4340, 8.1, using timestamps
and the CCVal window counter. There exist 4 cases for the CCVal difference:
 * == 0: less than RTT/4 passed since last packet -- unusable;
 *  > 4: (much) more than 1 RTT has passed since last packet -- also unusable;
 * == 4: perfect sample (exactly one RTT has passed since last packet);
 * 1..3: sub-optimal sample (between RTT/4 and 3*RTT/4 has passed).

In the last case the algorithm tried to optimise by storing away the candidate
and then re-trying next time. The problem is that
 * a large number of samples is needed to smooth out the inaccuracies of the
   algorithm;
 * the sender may not be sending enough packets to warrant a "next time";
 * hence it is better to use suboptimal samples whenever possible.
The algorithm now stores away the current sample only if the difference is 0.

Applicability and background
----------------------------
A realistic example is MP3 streaming where packets are sent at a rate of less
than one packet per RTT, which means that suitable samples are absent for a
very long time.

The effectiveness of using suboptimal samples (with a delta between 1 and 4) was
confirmed by instrumenting the algorithm with counters. The results of two 20
second test runs were:
 * With the old algorithm and a total of 38442 function calls, only 394 of these
   calls resulted in usable RTT samples (about 1%), and 378 out of these were
   "perfect" samples and 28013 (unused) samples had a delta of 1..3.
 * With the new algorithm and a total of 37057 function calls, 1702 usable RTT
   samples were retrieved (about 4.6%), 5 out of these were "perfect" samples.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:42 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
49ffc29a02 dccp: Clamping RTT values
This extracts the clamping part of dccp_sample_rtt() and makes it available
to other parts of the code (as e.g. used in the next patch).

Note: The function dccp_sample_rtt() now reduces to subtracting the elapsed
time. This could be eliminated but would require shorter prefixes and thus
is not done by this patch - maybe an idea for later.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:41 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
2b81143aa3 dccp ccid-3: Always perform receiver RTT sampling
This updates the CCID-3 receiver in part with regard to errata 610 and 611
(http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_list.php), which change RFC 4342 to use the
Receive Rate as specified in rfc3448bis, requiring to constantly sample the
RTT (or use a sender RTT).

Doing this requires reusing the RX history structure after dealing with a loss.

The patch does not resolve how to compute X_recv if the interval is less
than 1 RTT. A FIXME has been added (and is resolved in subsequent patch).

Furthermore, since this is all TFRC-based functionality, the RTT estimation
is now also performed by the dccp_tfrc_lib module. This further simplifies
the CCID-3 code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:41 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
2f3e3bbad9 dccp ccid-3: Remove duplicate RX states
The only state information that the CCID-3 receiver keeps is whether initial 
feedback has been sent or not. Further, this overlaps with use of feedback:

 * state == TFRC_RSTATE_NO_DATA as long as no feedback has been sent;
 * state == TFRC_RSTATE_DATA    as soon as the first feedback has been sent.

This patch reduces the duplication, by memorising the type of the last feedback.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:41 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
34a081be8e dccp tfrc: Let dccp_tfrc_lib do the sampling work
This migrates more TFRC-related code into the dccp_tfrc_lib:
 * sampling of the packet size `s' (which is only needed until the first
   loss interval is computed (ccid3_first_li));
 * updating the byte-counter `bytes_recvd' in between sending feedbacks.
The result is a better separation of CCID-3 specific and TFRC specific
code, which aids future integration with ECN and e.g. CCID-4.

Further changes:
----------------
 * replaced magic number of 536 with equivalent constant TCP_MIN_RCVMSS;
   (this constant is also used when no estimate for `s' is available).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:41 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
3ca7aea041 dccp tfrc: Return type of update_i_mean is void
This changes the return type of tfrc_lh_update_i_mean() to void, since that 
function returns always `false'. This is due to 

 	len = dccp_delta_seqno(cur->li_seqno, DCCP_SKB_CB(skb)->dccpd_seq) + 1;
 
 	if (len - (s64)cur->li_length <= 0)	/* duplicate or reordered */
		return 0;

which means that update_i_mean can only increase the length of the open loss
interval I_0, and hence the value of I_tot0 (RFC 3448, 5.4). Consequently the
test `i_mean < old_i_mean' at the end of the function always evaluates to false.

There is no known way by which a loss interval can suddenly become shorter,
therefore the return type of the function is changed to void. (That is, under
the given circumstances step (3) in RFC 3448, 6.1 will not occur.)

Further changes:
----------------
 * the function is now called from tfrc_rx_handle_loss, which is equivalent
   to the previous way of calling from rx_packet_recv (it was called whenever
   there was no new or pending loss, now  it is also updated when there is
   a pending loss - this increases the accuracy a bit);
 * added a FIXME to possibly consider NDP counting as per RFC 4342 (this is
   not implemented yet).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:41 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d20ed95f8b dccp tfrc: Perform early loss detection
This enables the TFRC code to begin loss detection (as soon as the module
is loaded), using the latest updates from rfc3448bis-06, 6.3.1:

 * when the first data packet(s) are lost or marked, set
 * X_target = s/(2*R) => f(p) = s/(R * X_target) = 2,
 * corresponding to a loss rate of ~ 20.64%.

The handle_loss() function is now called right at the begin of rx_packet_recv()
and thus no longer protected against duplicates: hence a call to rx_duplicate()
has been added.  Such a call makes sense now, as the previous patch initialises
the first entry with a sequence number of GSR.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:40 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
24b8d34321 dccp tfrc: Receiver history initialisation routine
This patch 
 1) separates history allocation and initialisation, to facilitate early
    loss detection (implemented by a subsequent patch);

 2) removes duplication by using the existing tfrc_rx_hist_purge() if the
    allocation fails. This is now possible, since the initialisation routine
 3) zeroes out the entire history before using it. 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:40 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
8b67ad12b0 dccp tfrc: Suppress unavoidable "below resolution" warning
In the congestion-avoidance phase a decay of p towards 0 is natural once fewer
losses are encountered. Hence the warning message "p is below resolution" is
not necessary, and thus turned into a debug message by this patch.

The TFRC_SMALLEST_P is needed since in theory p never actually reaches 0. When
no further losses are encountered, the loss interval I_0 grows in length, 
causing p to decrease towards 0, causing X_calc = s/(RTT * f(p)) to increase.

With the given minimum-resolution this congestion avoidance phase stops at some
fixed value, an approximation formula has been added to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:40 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d0c05fe444 dccp ccid-3: Simplified handling of TX states
Since CCIDs are only used during the established phase of a connection,
they have very little internal state; this specifically reduces to:

 * "no packet sent" if and only if s == 0, for the TX packet size s;

 * when the first packet has been sent (i.e. `s' > 0), the question is whether
   or not feedback has been received:
   - if a feedback packet is received, "feedback = yes" is set,
   - if the nofeedback timer expires,  "feedback = no"  is set.

Thus the CCID only needs to remember state about whether or not feedback
has been received. This is now implemented using a boolean flag, which is
toggled when a feedback packet arrives or the nofeedback timer expires.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:40 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
f76fd327a8 dccp ccid-3: Runtime verification of timer resolution
The DCCP base time resolution is 10 microseconds (RFC 4340, 13.1 ... 13.3).

Using a timer with a lower resolution was found to trigger the following
bug warnings/problems on high-speed networks (e.g. local loopback):
 * RTT samples are rounded down to 0 if below resolution;
 * in some cases, negative RTT samples were observed;
 * the CCID-3 feedback timer complains that the feedback interval is 0,
   since the feedback interval is in the order of 1 RTT or less and RTT
   measurement rounded this down to 0;
On an Intel computer this will for instance happen when using a
boot-time parameter of "clocksource=jiffies".

The following system log messages were observed:
  11:24:00 kernel: BUG: delta (0) <= 0 at ccid3_hc_rx_send_feedback()
  11:26:12 kernel: BUG: delta (0) <= 0 at ccid3_hc_rx_send_feedback()
  11:26:30 kernel: dccp_sample_rtt: unusable RTT sample 0, using min
  11:26:30 last message repeated 5 times

This patch defines a global constant for the time resolution, adds this in
timer.c, and checks the available clock resolution at CCID-3 module load time.

When the resolution is worse than 10 microseconds, module loading exits with
a message "socket type not supported".

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:40 +02:00
Tomasz Grobelny
7d1af6a8d9 dccp qpolicy: Parameter checking of cmsg qpolicy parameters
Ensure that cmsg->cmsg_type value is valid for qpolicy 
that is currently in use.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:40 +02:00
Tomasz Grobelny
d6da3511d6 dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructure
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of 
TX packets and provides two policies:
 * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and
 * a priority based policy (set via socket options).
Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write
queue (can be overridden via socket options). 

The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority
identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field
is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary
data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
ddab05568e dccp: Clean up slow-path input processing
This patch rearranges the order of statements of the slow-path input processing
(i.e. any other state than OPEN), to resolve the following issues.

 1. Dependencies: the order of statements now better matches RFC 4340, 8.5, i.e.
    step 7 is before step 9 (previously 9 was before 7), and parsing options in
    step 8 (which can consume resources) now comes after step 7.
 2. Bug-fix: in state CLOSED, there should not be any sequence number checking
    or option processing. This is why the test for CLOSED has been moved after
    the test for LISTEN.
 3. As before sequence number checks are omitted if in state LISTEN/REQUEST, due
    to the note underneath the table in RFC 4340, 7.5.3.
 4. Packets are now passed on to Ack Vector / CCID processing only after
    - step 7  (receive unexpected packets), 
    - step 9  (receive Reset),
    - step 13 (receive CloseReq),
    - step 14 (receive Close)
    and only if the state is PARTOPEN. This simplifies CCID processing:
    - in LISTEN/CLOSED the CCIDs are non-existent;
    - in RESPOND/REQUEST the CCIDs have not yet been negotiated;
    - in CLOSEREQ and active-CLOSING the node has already closed this socket;
    - in passive-CLOSING the client is waiting for its Reset.
    In the last case, RFC 4340, 8.3 leaves it open to ignore further incoming
    data, which is the approach taken here.

As a result of (3), CCID processing is now indeed confined to OPEN/PARTOPEN
states, i.e. congestion control is performed only on the flow of data packets. 

This avoids pathological cases of doing congestion control on those messages
which set up and terminate the connection. 

I have done a few checks to see if this creates a problem in other parts of
the code. This seems not to be the case; even if there were one, it would be
better to fix it than to perform congestion control on Close/Request/Response
messages. Similarly for Ack Vectors (as they depend on the negotiated CCID).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
6224877b2c tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversion
This patch consolidates the code common to TCP and CCID-2:
 * TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and
 * CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b25b0c60b0 dccp: Combine the functionality of enqeueing and cloning
Realising the following call pattern,
 * first dccp_entail() is called to enqueue a new skb and
 * then skb_clone() is called to transmit a clone of that skb,

this patch integrates both interrelated steps into dccp_entail().

Note: the return value of skb_clone is not checked. It may be an idea to add a
      warning if this occurs. In both instances, however, a timer is set for
      retransmission, so that cloning is re-tried via dccp_retransmit_skb().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
20bbd0f75e dccp ccid-2: Remove wrappers around sk_{reset,stop}_timer()
This removes the wrappers around the sk timer functions as it makes the code
clearer and not much is gained from using wrappers: the BUG_ON in 
start_rto_timer will never trigger since that function was called only when
 * the RTO timer expired (rto_expire, and then timer_pending() is false);
 * in tx_packet_sent only if !timer_pending() (BUG_ON is redundant here);
 * previously in new_ack, after stopping the timer (timer_pending() false).

One further motive behind this patch is to replace the RTO timer with the
icsk retransmission timer, as it is already part of the DCCP socket.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
1435562d7e dccp ccid-2: Replace broken RTT estimator with better algorithm
The current CCID-2 RTT estimator code is in parts broken and lags behind the
suggestions in RFC2988 of using scaled variants for SRTT/RTTVAR. 
That code is replaced by the present patch, which reuses the Linux TCP RTT
estimator code - reasons for this code duplication are given below.

Further details:
----------------
 1. The minimum RTO of previously one second has been replaced with TCP's, since
    RFC4341, sec. 5 says that the minimum of 1 sec. (suggested in RFC2988, 2.4)
    is not necessary. Instead, the TCP_RTO_MIN is used, which agrees with DCCP's
    concept of a default RTT (RFC 4340, 3.4). 
 2. The maximum RTO has been set to DCCP_RTO_MAX (64 sec), which agrees with 
    RFC2988, (2.5). 
 3. De-inlined the function ccid2_new_ack().
 4. Added a FIXME: the RTT is sampled several times per Ack Vector, which will
    give the wrong estimate. It should be replaced with one sample per Ack.
    However, at the moment this can not be resolved easily, since     
    - it depends on TX history code (which also needs some work),
    - the cleanest solution is not to use the `sent' time at all (saves 4 bytes
      per entry) and use DCCP timestamps / elapsed time to estimated the RTT,
      which however is non-trivial to get right (but needs to be done).

Reasons for reusing the Linux TCP estimator algorithm:   
------------------------------------------------------
Some time was spent to find a better alternative, using basic RFC2988 as a first
step. Further analysis and experimentation showed that the Linux TCP RTO
estimator is superior to a basic RFC2988 implementation. A summary is on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ccid2/rto_estimator/

In addition, this estimator fared well in a recent empirical evaluation:

    Rewaskar, Sushant, Jasleen Kaur and F. Donelson Smith.
    A Performance Study of Loss Detection/Recovery in Real-world TCP
    Implementations. Proceedings of 15th IEEE International
    Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP-07). 2007.

Thus there is significant benefit in reusing the existing TCP code.


Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
e9803c0104 dccp ccid-2: Simplify dec_pipe and rearming of RTO timer
This removes the dec_pipe function and improves the way the RTO timer is rearmed
when a new acknowledgment comes in.

Details and justification for removal:
--------------------------------------
 1) The BUG_ON in dec_pipe is never triggered: pipe is only decremented for TX 
    history entries between tail and head, for which it had previously been 
    incremented in tx_packet_sent; and it is not decremented twice for the same
    entry, since it is
    - either decremented when a corresponding Ack Vector cell in state 0 or 1 
      was received (and then ccid2s_acked==1),
    - or it is decremented when ccid2s_acked==0, as part of the loss detection
      in tx_packet_recv (and hence it can not have been decremented earlier).

 2) Restarting the RTO timer happens for every single entry in each Ack Vector
    parsed by tx_packet_recv (according to RFC 4340, 11.4 this can happen up to
    16192 times per Ack Vector). 

 3) The RTO timer should not be restarted when all outstanding data has been
    acknowledged. This is currently done similar to (2), in dec_pipe, when
    pipe has reached 0.

The patch onsolidates the code which rearms the RTO timer, combining the
segments from new_ack and dec_pipe. As a result, the code becomes clearer
(compare with tcp_rearm_rto()).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c6f0f2e71f dccp ccid-2: Remove redundant sanity tests
This removes the ccid2_hc_tx_check_sanity function: it is redundant.

Details:
========
The tx_check_sanity function performs three tests:
 1) it checks that the circular TX list is sorted
    - in ascending order of sequence number (ccid2s_seq) 
    - and time (ccid2s_sent),
    - in the direction from `tail' (hctx_seqt) to `head' (hctx_seqh);
 2) it ensures that the entire list has the length seqbufc * CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN;
 3) it ensures that pipe equals the number of packets that were not
    marked `acked' (ccid2s_acked) between `tail' and `head'.

The following argues that each of these tests is redundant, this can be verified
by going through the code.

(1) is not necessary, since both time and GSS increase from one packet to the
next, so that subsequent insertions in tx_packet_sent (which advance the `head'
pointer) will be in ascending order of time and sequence number.

In (2), the length of the list is always equal to seqbufc times CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN
(set to 1024) unless allocation caused an earlier failure, because:
 * at initialisation (tx_init), there is one chunk of size 1024 and seqbufc=1;
 * subsequent calls to tx_alloc_seq take place whenever head->next == tail in 
   tx_packet_sent; then a new chunk of size 1024 is inserted between head and
   tail, and seqbufc is incremented by one.

To show that (3) is redundant requires looking at two cases. 

The `pipe' variable of the TX socket is incremented only in tx_packet_sent, and 
decremented in tx_packet_recv.  When head == tail (TX history empty) then pipe
should be 0, which is the case directly after initialisation and after a
retransmission timeout has occurred (ccid2_hc_tx_rto_expire).

The first case involves parsing Ack Vectors for packets recorded in the live
portion of the buffer, between tail and head. For each packet marked by the
receiver as received (state 0) or ECN-marked (state 1), pipe is decremented by
one, so for all such packets the BUG_ON in tx_check_sanity will not trigger.

The second case is the loss detection in the second half of tx_packet_recv,
below the comment "Check for NUMDUPACK".

The first while-loop here ensures that the sequence number of `seqp' is either
above or equal to `high_ack', or otherwise equal to the highest sequence number
sent so far (of the entry head->prev, as head points to the next unsent entry).
The next while-loop ("while (1)") counts the number of acked packets starting
from that position of seqp, going backwards in the direction from head->prev to
tail. If NUMDUPACK=3 such packets were counted within this loop, `seqp' points
to the last acknowledged packet of these, and the "if (done == NUMDUPACK)" block
is entered next. 
The while-loop contained within that block in turn traverses the list backwards,
from head to tail; the position of `seqp' is saved in the variable `last_acked'. 
For each packet not marked as `acked', a congestion event is triggered within 
the loop, and pipe is decremented. The loop terminates when `seqp' has reached
`tail', whereupon tail is set to the position previously stored in `last_acked'.
Thus, between `last_acked' and the previous position of `tail', 
 - pipe has been decremented earlier if the packet was marked as state 0 or 1;
 - pipe was decremented if the packet was not marked as acked.
That is, pipe has been decremented by the number of packets between `last_acked'
and the previous position of `tail'. As a consequence, pipe now again reflects
the number of packets which have not (yet) been acked between the new position
of tail (at `last_acked') and head->prev, or 0 if head==tail. The result is that
the BUG_ON condition in check_sanity will also not be triggered, hence the test
(3) is also redundant.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
83337dae6c dccp ccid-2: Stop polling
This updates CCID2 to use the CCID dequeuing mechanism, converting from
previous constant-polling to a now event-driven mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
146993cf51 dccp: Refine the wait-for-ccid mechanism
This extends the existing wait-for-ccid routine so that it may be used with
different types of CCID. It further addresses the problems listed below.

The code looks if the write queue is non-empty and grants the TX CCID up to
`timeout' jiffies to drain the queue. It will instead purge that queue if
 * the delay suggested by the CCID exceeds the time budget;
 * a socket error occurred while waiting for the CCID;
 * there is a signal pending (eg. annoyed user pressed Control-C);
 * the CCID does not support delays (we don't know how long it will take).


                 D e t a i l s  [can be removed]
                 -------------------------------
DCCP's sending mechanism functions a bit like non-blocking I/O: dccp_sendmsg()
will enqueue up to net.dccp.default.tx_qlen packets (default=5), without waiting
for them to be released to the network.

Rate-based CCIDs, such as CCID3/4, can impose sending delays of up to maximally
64 seconds (t_mbi in RFC 3448). Hence the write queue may still contain packets
when the application closes. Since the write queue is congestion-controlled by
the CCID, draining the queue is also under control of the CCID.

There are several problems that needed to be addressed:
 1) The queue-drain mechanism only works with rate-based CCIDs. If CCID2 for
    example has a full TX queue and becomes network-limited just as the
    application wants to close, then waiting for CCID2 to become unblocked could
    lead to an indefinite  delay (i.e., application "hangs").
 2) Since each TX CCID in turn uses a feedback mechanism, there may be changes
    in its sending policy while the queue is being drained. This can lead to
    further delays during which the application will not be able to terminate.
 3) The minimum wait time for CCID3/4 can be expected to be the queue length
    times the current inter-packet delay. For example if tx_qlen=100 and a delay
    of 15 ms is used for each packet, then the application would have to wait
    for a minimum of 1.5 seconds before being allowed to exit.
 4) There is no way for the user/application to control this behaviour. It would
    be good to use the timeout argument of dccp_close() as an upper bound. Then
    the maximum time that an application is willing to wait for its CCIDs to can
    be set via the SO_LINGER option.

These problems are addressed by giving the CCID a grace period of up to the
`timeout' value.

The wait-for-ccid function is, as before, used when the application 
 (a) has read all the data in its receive buffer and
 (b) if SO_LINGER was set with a non-zero linger time, or
 (c) the socket is either in the OPEN (active close) or in the PASSIVE_CLOSEREQ
     state (client application closes after receiving CloseReq).

In addition, there is a catch-all case by calling __skb_queue_purge() after 
waiting for the CCID. This is necessary since the write queue may still have
data when
 (a) the host has been passively-closed,
 (b) abnormal termination (unread data, zero linger time),
 (c) wait-for-ccid could not finish within the given time limit.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
e7937772d7 dccp: Extend CCID packet dequeueing interface
This extends the packet dequeuing interface of dccp_write_xmit() to allow
 1. CCIDs to take care of timing when the next packet may be sent;
 2. delayed sending (as before, with an inter-packet gap up to 65.535 seconds).

The main purpose is to take CCID2 out of its polling mode (when it is network-
limited, it tries every millisecond to send, without interruption).
The interface can also be used to support other CCIDs.

The mode of operation for (2) is as follows:
 * new packet is enqueued via dccp_sendmsg() => dccp_write_xmit(),
 * ccid_hc_tx_send_packet() detects that it may not send (e.g. window full), 
 * it signals this condition via `CCID_PACKET_WILL_DEQUEUE_LATER',
 * dccp_write_xmit() returns without further action;
 * after some time the wait-condition for CCID becomes true,
 * that CCID schedules the tasklet,
 * tasklet function calls ccid_hc_tx_send_packet() via dccp_write_xmit(),
 * since the wait-condition is now true, ccid_hc_tx_packet() returns "send now",
 * packet is sent, and possibly more (since dccp_write_xmit() loops).

Code reuse: the taskled function calls dccp_write_xmit(), the timer function
            reduces to a wrapper around the same code.

If the tasklet finds that the socket is locked, it re-schedules the tasklet
function (not the tasklet) after one jiffy.

Changed DCCP_BUG to dccp_pr_debug when transmit_skb returns an error (e.g. when a
local qdisc is used, NET_XMIT_DROP=1 can be returned for many packets).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
f4a66ca4d2 dccp: Return-value convention of hc_tx_send_packet()
This patch reorganises the return value convention of the CCID TX sending
function, to permit more flexible schemes, as required by subsequent patches.

Currently the convention is 
 * values < 0     mean error,
 * a value == 0   means "send now", and
 * a value x > 0  means "send in x milliseconds".

The patch provides symbolic constants and a function to interpret return values.
In addition, it caps the maximum positive return value to 0xFFFF milliseconds,
corresponding to 65.535 seconds. 

This is possible since in CCID-3 the maximum inter-packet gap is t_mbi = 64 sec.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c8bf462bc5 dccp ccid-2: Separate option parsing from CCID processing
This patch replaces an almost identical replication of code: large parts
of dccp_parse_options() re-appeared as ccid2_ackvector() in ccid2.c.

Apart from the duplication, this caused two more problems:
 1. CCIDs should not need to be concerned with parsing header options;
 2. one can not assume that Ack Vectors appear as a contiguous area within an
    skb, it is legal to insert other options and/or padding in between. The
    current code would throw an error and stop reading in such a case.

The patch provides a new data structure and associated list housekeeping.

Only small changes were necessary to integrate with CCID-2: data structure
initialisation, adapt list traversal routine, and add call to the provided
cleanup routine.

The latter also lead to fixing the following BUG: CCID-2 so far ignored
Ack Vectors on all packets other than Ack/DataAck, which is incorrect,
since Ack Vectors can be present on any packet that has an Ack field.

Details:
--------
 * received Ack Vectors are parsed by dccp_parse_options() alone, which passes
   the result on to the CCID-specific routine ccid_hc_tx_parse_options();
 * CCIDs interested in using/decoding Ack Vector information will add code
   to fetch parsed Ack Vectors via this interface;
 * a data structure, `struct dccp_ackvec_parsed' is provided as interface;
 * this structure arranges Ack Vectors of the same skb into a FIFO order;
 * a doubly-linked list is used to keep the required FIFO code small.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5a577b488f dccp ccid-2: Remove old infrastructure
This removes
 * functions for which updates have been provided in the preceding patches and
 * the @av_vec_len field - it is no longer necessary since the buffer length is
   now always computed dynamically;
 * conditional debugging code (CONFIG_IP_DCCP_ACKVEC).

The reason for removing the conditional debugging code is that Ack Vectors are 
an almost inevitable necessity - RFC 4341 says that for CCID-2, Ack Vectors must
be used. Furthermore, the code would be only interesting for coding - after some 
extensive testing with this patch set, having the debug code around is no longer
of real help.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c2f42077bd dccp ccid-2: Schedule Sync as out-of-band mechanism
The problem with Ack Vectors is that 

  i) their length is variable and can in principle grow quite large,
 ii) it is hard to predict exactly how large they will be.

Due to the second point it seems not a good idea to reduce the MPS; in
particular when on average there is enough room for the Ack Vector and an
increase in length is momentarily due to some burst loss, after which the
Ack Vector returns to its normal/average length.

The solution taken by this patch is to subtract a minimum-expected Ack Vector
length from the MPS (previous patch), and to defer any larger Ack Vectors onto
a separate Sync - but only if indeed there is no space left on the skb.

This patch provides the infrastructure to schedule Sync-packets for transporting
(urgent) out-of-band data. Its signalling is quicker than scheduling an Ack, since
it does not need to wait for new application data.

It can thus serve other parts of the DCCP code as well.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
283fb4a5f3 dccp ccid-2: Consolidate Ack-Vector processing within main DCCP module
This aggregates Ack Vector processing (handling input and clearing old state)
into one function, for the following reasons and benefits:
 * all Ack Vector-specific processing is now in one place;
 * duplicated code is removed;
 * ensuring sanity: from an Ack Vector point of view, it is better to clear the
                    old state first before entering new state;
 * Ack Event handling happens mostly within the CCIDs, not the main DCCP module.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
e28fe59f9c dccp ccid-2: Update code for the Ack Vector input/registration routine
This patch uupdates the code which registers new packets as received, using the
new circular buffer interface. It contributes a new algorithm which 
	* supports both tail/head pointers and buffer wrap-around and
	* deals with overflow (head/tail move in lock-step).

The updated code is also partioned differently, into
	1. dealing with the empty buffer,
	2. adding new packets into non-empty buffer,
	3. reserving space when encountering a `hole' in the sequence space,
	4. updating old state and deciding when old state is irrelevant.

Protection against large burst losses: With regard to (3), it is too costly to
reserve space when there are large bursts of losses. When bursts get too large,
the code does no longer reserve space and just fills in cells normally. This
measure reduces space consumption by a factor of 63.

The code reuses in part the previous implementation by Arnaldo de Melo.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
68b1de1576 dccp ccid-2: Algorithm to update buffer state
This provides a routine to consistently update the buffer state when the
peer acknowledges receipt of Ack Vectors; updating state in the list of Ack
Vectors as well as in the circular buffer.

While based on RFC 4340, several additional (and necessary) precautions were
added to protect the consistency of the buffer state. These additions are
essential, since analysis and experience showed that the basic algorithm was
insufficient for this task (which lead to problems that were hard to debug).

The algorithm now
 * deals with HC-sender acknowledging to HC-receiver and vice versa,
 * keeps track of the last unacknowledged but received seqno in tail_ackno,
 * has special cases to reset the overflow condition when appropriate,
 * is protected against receiving older information (would mess up buffer state).

Note: The older code performed an unnecessary step, where the sender cleared
Ack Vector state by parsing the Ack Vector received by the HC-receiver. Doing
this was entirely redundant, since
 * the receiver always puts the full acknowledgment window (groups 2,3 in 11.4.2)
   into the Ack Vectors it sends; hence the HC-receiver is only interested in the
   highest state that the HC-sender received;
 * this means that the acknowledgment number on the (Data)Ack from the HC-sender
   is sufficient; and work done in parsing earlier state is not necessary, since
   the later state subsumes the  earlier one (see also RFC 4340, A.4).
This older interface (dccp_ackvec_parse()) is therefore removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d7dc7e5f49 dccp ccid-2: Implementation of circular Ack Vector buffer with overflow handling
This completes the implementation of a circular buffer for Ack Vectors, by 
extending the current (linear array-based) implementation.  The changes are:

 (a) An `overflow' flag to deal with the case of overflow. As before, dynamic
     growth of the buffer will not be supported; but code will be added to deal
     robustly with overflowing Ack Vector buffers.

 (b) A `tail_seqno' field. When naively implementing the algorithm of Appendix A
     in RFC 4340, problems arise whenever subsequent Ack Vector records overlap,
     which can bring the entire run length calculation completely out of synch.
     (This is documented on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/\
                                             ack_vectors/tracking_tail_ackno/ .)
 (c) The buffer lengthi is now computed dynamically (i.e. current fill level),
     as the span between head to tail.

As a result, dccp_ackvec_pending() is now simpler - the #ifdef is no longer 
necessary since buf_empty is always true when IP_DCCP_ACKVEC is not configured.

Note on overflow handling: 
-------------------------
 The Ack Vector code previously simply started to drop packets when the
 Ack Vector buffer overflowed. This means that the userspace application
 will not be able to receive, only because of an Ack Vector storage problem.
 
 Furthermore, overflow may be transient, so that applications may later
 recover from the overflow. Recovering from dropped packets is more difficult
 (e.g. video key frames).
 
 Hence the patch uses a different policy: when the buffer overflows, the oldest
 entries are subsequently overwritten. This has a higher chance of recovery.
 Details are on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ack_vectors/

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:36 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
4829007c7b dccp ccid-2: Separate internals of Ack Vectors from option-parsing code
This patch
 * separates Ack Vector housekeeping code from option-insertion code;
 * shifts option-specific code from ackvec.c into options.c;
 * introduces a dedicated routine to take care of the Ack Vector records;
 * simplifies the dccp_ackvec_insert_avr() routine: the BUG_ON was redundant, 
   since the list is automatically arranged in descending order of ack_seqno.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:36 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
ff49e27089 dccp ccid-2: Ack Vector interface clean-up
This patch brings the Ack Vector interface up to date. Its main purpose is
to lay the basis for the subsequent patches of this set, which will use the
new data structure fields and routines.

There are no real algorithmic changes, rather an adaptation:

 (1) Replaced the static Ack Vector size (2) with a #define so that it can
     be adapted (with low loss / Ack Ratio, a value of 1 works, so 2 seems
     to be sufficient for the moment) and added a solution so that computing
     the ECN nonce will continue to work - even with larger Ack Vectors.

 (2) Replaced the #defines for Ack Vector states with a complete enum.

 (3) Replaced #defines to compute Ack Vector length and state with general
     purpose routines (inlines), and updated code to use these.

 (4) Added a `tail' field (conversion to circular buffer in subsequent patch).

 (5) Updated the (outdated) documentation for Ack Vector struct.

 (6) All sequence number containers now trimmed to 48 bits.

 (7) Removal of unused bits:
     * removed dccpav_ack_nonce from struct dccp_ackvec, since this is already
       redundantly stored in the `dccpavr_ack_nonce' (of Ack Vector record);
     * removed Elapsed Time for Ack Vectors (it was nowhere used);
     * replaced semantics of dccpavr_sent_len with dccpavr_ack_runlen, since
       the code needs to be able to remember the old run length; 
     * reduced the de-/allocation routines (redundant / duplicate tests).


Justification for removing Elapsed Time information [can be removed]:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 1. The Elapsed Time information for Ack Vectors was nowhere used in the code.
 2. DCCP does not implement rate-based pacing of acknowledgments. The only
    recommendation for always including Elapsed Time is in section 11.3 of
    RFC 4340: "Receivers that rate-pace acknowledgements SHOULD [...]
    include Elapsed Time options". But such is not the case here.
 3. It does not really improve estimation accuracy. The Elapsed Time field only
    records the time between the arrival of the last acknowledgeable packet and
    the time the Ack Vector is sent out. Since Linux does not (yet) implement
    delayed Acks, the time difference will typically be small, since often the
    arrival of a data packet triggers sending feedback at the HC-receiver.


Justification for changes in de-/allocation routines [can be removed]:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  * INIT_LIST_HEAD in dccp_ackvec_record_new was redundant, since the list
    pointers were later overwritten when the node was added via list_add();
  * dccp_ackvec_record_new() was called in a single place only;
  * calls to list_del_init() before calling dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were
    redundant, since subsequently the entire element was k-freed;
  * since all calls to dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were preceded to a call to
    list_del_init(), the WARN_ON test would never evaluate to true;
  * since all calls to dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were made from within
    list_for_each_entry_safe(), the test for avr == NULL was redundant;
  * list_empty() in ackvec_free was redundant, since the same condition is
    embedded in the loop condition of the subsequent list_for_each_entry_safe().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:36 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b8c6bcee1d dccp: Reduce noise in output and convert to ktime_t
This fixes the problem that dccp_probe output can grow quite large without
apparent benefit (many identical data points), creating huge files (up to
over one Gigabyte for a few minutes' test run) which are very hard to 
post-process (in one instance it got so bad that gnuplot ate up all memory
plus swap).

The cause for the problem is that the kprobe is inserted into dccp_sendmsg(),
which can be called in a polling-mode (whenever the TX queue is full due to
congestion-control issues, EAGAIN is returned). This creates many very 
similar data points, i.e. the increase of processing time does not increase
the quality/information of the probe output.

The fix is to attach the probe to a different function -- write_xmit was
chosen since it gets called continually (both via userspace and timer);
an input-path function would stop sampling as soon as the other end stops
sending feedback.

For comparison the output file sizes for the same 20 second test
run over a lossy link:
           * before / without patch:  118   Megabytes
           * after  / with patch:       1.2 Megabytes
and there was much less noise in the output.     

To allow backward compatibility with scripts that people use, the now-unused
`size' field in the output has been replaced with the CCID identifier. This
also serves for future compatibility - support for CCID2 is work in progress
(depends on the still unfinished SRTT/RTTVAR updates).

While at it, the update to ktime_t was also performed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:36 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
a9c1656ab1 dccp: Merge now-reduced connect_init() function
After moving the assignment of GAR/ISS from dccp_connect_init() to
dccp_transmit_skb(), the former function becomes very small, so that
a merger with dccp_connect() suggests itself.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
bfbddd085a dccp: Fix the adjustments to AWL and SWL
This fixes a problem and a potential loophole with regard to seqno/ackno
validity: the problem is that the initial adjustments to AWL/SWL were
only performed at the begin of the connection, during the handshake.

Since the Sequence Window feature is always greater than Wmin=32 (7.5.2), 
it is however necessary to perform these adjustments at least for the first
W/W' (variables as per 7.5.1) packets in the lifetime of a connection.

This requirement is complicated by the fact that W/W' can change at any time
during the lifetime of a connection.

Therefore the consequence is to perform this safety check each time SWL/AWL
are updated.

A second problem solved by this patch is that the remote/local Sequence Window
feature values (which set the bounds for AWL/SWL/SWH) are undefined until the
feature negotiation has completed.

During the initial handshake we have more stringent sequence number protection,
the changes added by this patch effect that {A,S}W{L,H} are within the correct
bounds at the instant that feature negotiation completes (since the SeqWin
feature activation handlers call dccp_update_gsr/gss()). 

A detailed rationale is below -- can be removed from the commit message.


1. Server sequence number checks during initial handshake
---------------------------------------------------------
The server can not use the fields of the listening socket for seqno/ackno checks
and thus needs to store all relevant information on a per-connection basis on
the dccp_request socket. This is a size-constrained structure and has currently
only ISS (dreq_iss) and ISR (dreq_isr) defined.
Adding further fields (SW{L,H}, AW{L,H}) would increase the size of the struct
and it is questionable whether this will have any practical gain. The currently
implemented solution is as follows.
 * receiving first Request: dccp_v{4,6}_conn_request sets 
                            ISR := P.seqno, ISS := dccp_v{4,6}_init_sequence()

 * sending first Response:  dccp_v{4,6}_send_response via dccp_make_response()	
                            sets P.seqno := ISS, sets P.ackno := ISR

 * receiving retransmitted Request: dccp_check_req() overrides ISR := P.seqno

 * answering retransmitted Request: dccp_make_response() sets ISS += 1,
                                    otherwise as per first Response

 * completing the handshake: succeeds in dccp_check_req() for the first Ack
                             where P.ackno == ISS (P.seqno is not tested)

 * creating child socket: ISS, ISR are copied from the request_sock

This solution will succeed whenever the server can receive the Request and the
subsequent Ack in succession, without retransmissions. If there is packet loss,
the client needs to retransmit until this condition succeeds; it will otherwise
eventually give up. Adding further fields to the request_sock could increase
the robustness a bit, in that it would make possible to let a reordered Ack
(from a retransmitted Response) pass. The argument against such a solution is
that if the packet loss is not persistent and an Ack gets through, why not
wait for the one answering the original response: if the loss is persistent, it
is probably better to not start the connection in the first place.

Long story short: the present design (by Arnaldo) is simple and will likely work
just as well as a more complicated solution. As a consequence, {A,S}W{L,H} are
not needed until the moment the request_sock is cloned into the accept queue.

At that stage feature negotiation has completed, so that the values for the local
and remote Sequence Window feature (7.5.2) are known, i.e. we are now in a better
position to compute {A,S}W{L,H}.


2. Client sequence number checks during initial handshake
---------------------------------------------------------
Until entering PARTOPEN the client does not need the adjustments, since it 
constrains the Ack window to the packet it sent.

 * sending first Request: dccp_v{4,6}_connect() choose ISS, 
                          dccp_connect() then sets GAR := ISS (as per 8.5),
			  dccp_transmit_skb() (with the previous bug fix) sets
			         GSS := ISS, AWL := ISS, AWH := GSS
 * n-th retransmitted Request (with previous patch):
	                  dccp_retransmit_skb() via timer calls
			  dccp_transmit_skb(), which sets GSS := ISS+n
                          and then AWL := ISS, AWH := ISS+n
	                  
 * receiving any Response: dccp_rcv_request_sent_state_process() 
	                   -- accepts packet if AWL <= P.ackno <= AWH;
			   -- sets GSR = ISR = P.seqno

 * sending the Ack completing the handshake: dccp_send_ack() calls 
                           dccp_transmit_skb(), which sets GSS += 1
			   and AWL := ISS, AWH := GSS
			   

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
2975abd251 dccp: Schedule an Ack when receiving timestamps
This schedules an Ack when receiving a timestamp, exploiting the
existing inet_csk_schedule_ack() function, saving one case in the
`dccp_ack_pending()' function.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d0995e6a9e dccp ccid-3: Remove dead states
This patch is thanks to an investigation by Leandro Sales de Melo and his
colleagues. They worked out two state diagrams which highlight the fact that
the xxx_TERM states in CCID-3/4 are in fact not necessary.

And this can be confirmed by in turn looking at the code: the xxx_TERM states
are only ever set in ccid3_hc_{rx,tx}_exit(). These two functions are part
of the following call chain:

 * ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_exit() are called from ccid_delete() only;
 * ccid_delete() invokes ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_exit() in the way of a destructor:
   after calling ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_exit(), the CCID is released from memory;
 * ccid_delete() is in turn called only by ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_delete();
 * ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_delete() is called only if 
   - feature negotiation failed   (dccp_feat_activate_values()),
   - when changing the RX/TX CCID (to eject the current CCID),
   - when destroying the socket   (in dccp_destroy_sock()).

In other words, when CCID-3 sets the state to xxx_TERM, it is at a time where
no more processing should be going on, hence it is not necessary to introduce
a dedicated exit state - this is implicit when unloading the CCID.

The patch removes this state, one switch-statement collapses as a result.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5fe94963a1 dccp ccid-3: Remove duplicate documentation
This removes RX-socket documentation which is either duplicate or non-existent.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c506d91d9a dccp: Unused argument in CCID tx function
This removes the argument `more' from ccid_hc_tx_packet_sent, since it was
nowhere used in the entire code.

(Anecdotally, this argument was not even used in the original KAME code where
 the function originally came from; compare the variable moreToSend in the
 freebsd61-dccp-kame-28.08.2006.patch now maintained by Emmanuel Lochin.)

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
f10ecaee6d dccp: Replace magic CCID-specific numbers by symbolic constants
The constants DCCPO_{MIN,MAX}_CCID_SPECIFIC are nowhere used in the code, but
instead for the CCID-specific options numbers are used.

This patch unifies the use of CCID-specific option numbers, by adding symbolic
names reflecting the definitions in RFC 4340, 10.3.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
ce177ae2e6 dccp ccid-3: Remove redundant 'options_received' struct
The `options_received' struct is redundant, since it re-duplicates the existing
`p' and `x_recv' fields. This patch removes the sub-struct and migrates the
format conversion operations (cf. below) to ccid3_hc_tx_parse_options().

                     Why the fields are redundant
                     ----------------------------
The Loss Event Rate p and the Receive Rate x_recv are initially 0 when first 
loading CCID-3, as ccid_new() zeroes out the entire ccid3_hc_tx_sock. 

When Loss Event Rate or Receive Rate options are received, they are stored by
ccid3_hc_tx_parse_options() into the fields `ccid3or_loss_event_rate' and
`ccid3or_receive_rate' of the sub-struct `options_received' in ccid3_hc_tx_sock.

After parsing (considering only the established state - dccp_rcv_established()),
the packet is passed on to ccid_hc_tx_packet_recv(). This calls the CCID-3
specific routine ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv(), which performs the following copy
operations between fields of ccid3_hc_tx_sock:

 * hctx->options_received.ccid3or_receive_rate is copied into hctx->x_recv,
   after scaling it for fixpoint arithmetic, by 2^64;
 * hctx->options_received.ccid3or_loss_event_rate is copied into hctx->p,
   considering the above special cases; in addition, a value of 0 here needs to
   be mapped into p=0 (when no Loss Event Rate option has been received yet).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
535c55df13 dccp tfrc/ccid-3: Computing Loss Rate from Loss Event Rate
This adds a function to take care of the following cases occurring in the
computation of the Loss Rate p:

 * 1/(2^32-1) is mapped into 0% as per RFC 4342, 8.5;
 * 1/0        is mapped into the maximum of 100%;
 * we want to avoid that p = 1/x is rounded down to 0 when x is very large,
   since this means accidentally re-entering slow-start (indicated by p==0).

In the last case, the minimum-resolution value of p is returned.

Furthermore, a bug in ccid3_hc_rx_getsockopt is fixed (1/0 was mapped into ~0U),
which now allows to consistently print the scaled p-values as

        printf("Loss Event Rate = %u.%04u %%\n", rx_info.tfrcrx_p / 10000, 
                                                 rx_info.tfrcrx_p % 10000);

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
3306c781ff dccp: Add packet type information to CCID-specific option parsing
This patch ...
 1. adds packet type information to ccid_hc_{rx,tx}_parse_options(). This is 
    necessary, since table 3 in RFC 4340, 5.8 leaves it to the CCIDs to state
    which options may (not) appear on what packet type.
 
 2. adds such a check for CCID-3's {Loss Event, Receive} Rate as specified in
    RFC 4340 8.3 ("Receive Rate options MUST NOT be sent on DCCP-Data packets")
    and 8.5 ("Loss Event Rate options MUST NOT be sent on DCCP-Data packets").

 3. removes an unused argument `idx' from ccid_hc_{rx,tx}_parse_options(). This
    is also no longer necessary, since the CCID-specific option-parsing routines
    are passed every single parameter of the type-length-value option encoding.

Also added documentation and made argument naming scheme consistent.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
47a61e7b43 dccp ccid-3: Simplify and consolidate tx_parse_options
This simplifies and consolidates the TX option-parsing code:

 1. The Loss Intervals option is not currently used, so dead code related to
    this option is removed. I am aware of no plans to support the option, but
    if someone wants to implement it (e.g. for inter-op tests), it is better
    to start afresh than having to also update currently unused code.

 2. The Loss Event and Receive Rate options have a lot of code in common (both
    are 32 bit, both have same length etc.), so this is consolidated.

 3. The test against GSR is not necessary, because
    - on first loading CCID3, ccid_new() zeroes out all fields in the socket; 
    - ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv() treats 0 and ~0U equivalently, due to

	pinv = opt_recv->ccid3or_loss_event_rate;
	if (pinv == ~0U || pinv == 0)
		hctx->p = 0;

    - as a result, the sequence number field is removed from opt_recv.
 
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
63b3a73bb8 dccp ccid-3: Remove ugly RTT-sampling history lookup
This removes the RTT-sampling function tfrc_tx_hist_rtt(), since

 1. it suffered from complex passing of return values (the return value both
    indicated successful lookup while the value doubled as RTT sample);

 2. when for some odd reason the sample value equalled 0, this triggered a bug
    warning about "bogus Ack", due to the ambiguity of the return value;

 3. on a passive host which has not sent anything the TX history is empty and
    thus will lead to unwanted "bogus Ack" warnings such as
    ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv: server(e7b7d518): DATAACK with bogus ACK-28197148
    ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv: server(e7b7d518): DATAACK with bogus ACK-26641606.

The fix is to replace the implicit encoding by performing the steps manually.					       

Furthermore, the "bogus Ack" warning has been removed, since it can actually be
triggered due to several reasons (network reordering, old packet, (3) above),
hence it is not very useful.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
de6f2b59e5 dccp ccid-3: Bug fix for the inter-packet scheduling algorithm
This fixes a subtle bug in the calculation of the inter-packet gap and shows
that t_delta, as it is currently used, is not needed. And hence replaced.

The algorithm from RFC 3448, 4.6 below continually computes a send time t_nom,
which is initialised with the current time t_now; t_gran = 1E6 / HZ specifies
the scheduling granularity, s the packet size, and X the sending rate:

  t_distance = t_nom - t_now;		// in microseconds
  t_delta    = min(t_ipi, t_gran) / 2;	// `delta' parameter in microseconds

  if (t_distance >= t_delta) {
	reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;
  } else {
  	t_ipi  = s / X;			// inter-packet interval in usec
	t_nom += t_ipi;			// compute the next send time
	send packet now;
  }


1) Description of the bug
-------------------------
Rescheduling requires a conversion into milliseconds, due to this call chain:

 * ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet() returns a timeout in milliseconds,
 * this value is converted by msecs_to_jiffies() in dccp_write_xmit(),
 * and finally used as jiffy-expires-value for sk_reset_timer().

The highest jiffy resolution with HZ=1000 is 1 millisecond, so using a higher
granularity does not make much sense here.

As a consequence, values of t_distance < 1000 are truncated to 0. This issue 
has so far been resolved by using instead

  if (t_distance >= t_delta + 1000)
	reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;

The bug is in artificially inflating t_delta to t_delta' = t_delta + 1000. This
is unnecessarily large, a more adequate value is t_delta' = max(t_delta, 1000).


2) Consequences of using the corrected t_delta'
-----------------------------------------------
Since t_delta <= t_gran/2 = 10^6/(2*HZ), we have t_delta <= 1000 as long as
HZ >= 500. This means that t_delta' = max(1000, t_delta) is constant at 1000.

On the other hand, when using a coarse HZ value of HZ < 500, we have three
sub-cases that can all be reduced to using another constant of t_gran/2.

 (a) The first case arises when t_ipi > t_gran. Here t_delta' is the constant
     t_delta' = max(1000, t_gran/2) = t_gran/2.

 (b) If t_ipi <= 2000 < t_gran = 10^6/HZ usec, then t_delta = t_ipi/2 <= 1000,
     so that t_delta' = max(1000, t_delta) = 1000 < t_gran/2. 

 (c) If 2000 < t_ipi <= t_gran, we have t_delta' = max(t_delta, 1000) = t_ipi/2.

In the second and third cases we have delay values less than t_gran/2, which is
in the order of less than or equal to half a jiffy. 

How these are treated depends on how fractions of a jiffy are handled: they
are either always rounded down to 0, or always rounded up to 1 jiffy (assuming
non-zero values). In both cases the error is on average in the order of 50%.

Thus we are not increasing the error when in the second/third case we replace
a value less than t_gran/2 with 0, by setting t_delta' to the constant t_gran/2.


3) Summary
----------
Fixing (1) and considering (2), the patch replaces t_delta with a constant,
whose value depends on CONFIG_HZ, changing the above algorithm to:
 
  if (t_distance >= t_delta')
	reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;

where t_delta' = 10^6/(2*HZ) if HZ < 500, and t_delta' = 1000 otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b2e317f4b5 dccp ccid-3: No more CCID control blocks in LISTEN state
The CCIDs are activated as last of the features, at the end of the handshake,
were the LISTEN state of the master socket is inherited into the server
state of the child socket. Thus, the only states visible to CCIDs now are
OPEN/PARTOPEN, and the closing states.

This allows to remove tests which were previously necessary to protect
against referencing a socket in the listening state (in CCID3), but which
now have become redundant.

As a further byproduct of enabling the CCIDs only after the connection has been
fully established, several typecast-initialisations of ccid3_hc_{rx,tx}_sock
can now be eliminated:
 * the CCID is loaded, so it is not necessary to test if it is NULL,
 * if it is possible to load a CCID and leave the private area NULL, then this
    is a bug, which should crash loudly - and earlier,
 * the test for state==OPEN || state==PARTOPEN now reduces only to the closing
   phase (e.g. when the node has received an unexpected Reset).		  

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
842d1ef14f dccp ccid-3: Remove ccid3hc{tx,rx}_ prefixes
This patch does the same for CCID-3 as the previous patch for CCID-2:

        s#ccid3hctx_##g;
        s#ccid3hcrx_##g;

plus manual editing to retain consistency.

Please note: expanded the fields of the `struct tfrc_tx_info' in the hc_tx_sock,
since using short #define identifiers is not a good idea. The only place where
this embedded struct was used is ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
1fb8750960 dccp ccid-2: Remove ccid2hc{tx,rx}_ prefixes
This patch fixes two problems caused by the ubiquitous long "hctx->ccid2htx_"
and "hcrx->ccid2hcrx_" prefixes:
 * code becomes hard to read;
 * multiple-line statements are almost inevitable even for simple expressions;
The prefixes are not really necessary (compare with "struct tcp_sock").

There had been previous discussion of this on dccp@vger, but so far this was
not followed up (most people agreed that the prefixes are too long). 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
88ddac513a dccp: Special case of the MPS for client-PARTOPEN with DataAcks
To increase robustness, it is necessary to resend Confirm feature-negotiation
options, even though the RFC does not mandate it. But feature negotiation
options can take (much) more room than the options on common DataAck packets.

Instead of reducing the MPS always for a case which only applies to the three
messages send during initial handshake, this patch devises a special case:

   if the payload length of the DataAck in PARTOPEN is too large, an Ack is sent
   to carry the options, and the feature-negotiation list is then flushed.

   This means that the server gets two Acks for one Response. If both Acks get
   lost, it is probably better to restart the connection anyway and devising yet
   another special-case does not seem worth the extra complexity.

The patch (over-)estimates the expected overhead to be 32*4 bytes -- commonly
seen values were 20-90 bytes for initial feature-negotiation options. 

It uses sizeof(u32) to mean "aligned units of 4 bytes". For consistency,
another use of sizeof is modified.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
55ebe3ab2d dccp: Leave headroom for options when calculating the MPS
The Maximum Packet Size (MPS) is of interest for applications which want
to transfer data, so it is only relevant to the data transfer phase of a
connection (unless one wants to send data on the DCCP-Request, but that is
not considered here).

The strategy chosen to deal with this requirement is to leave room for only 
such options that may appear on data packets.

A special consideration applies to Ack Vectors: this is purely guesswork,
since these can have any length between 3 and 1020 bytes. The strategy
chosen here is to subtract a configurable minimum, the value of 16 bytes
(2 bytes for type/length plus 14 Ack Vector cells) has been found by 
experimentatation. If people experience this as too much or too little,
this could later be turned into a Kconfig option.	

There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data
packets, hence it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
2faae5587f dccp ccid-2: Use feature-negotiation to report Ack Ratio changes
This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes,
as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2.

This raises some problems for CCID-2 since it can at the moment not cope
gracefully with Ack Ratio of e.g. 2. A FIXME has thus been added which
reverts to the existing policy of bypassing the Ack Ratio sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
4861a35443 dccp: Support for exchanging of NN options in established state
This patch provides support for the reception of NN options in (PART)OPEN state. 

It is a combination of change_recv() and confirm_recv(), specifically geared
towards receiving the `fast-path' NN options.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
624a965a93 dccp: Support for the exchange of NN options in established state
In contrast to static feature negotiation at the begin of a connection, which
establishes the capabilities of both endpoints, this patch introduces support
for dynamic exchange of feature negotiation options.

Such a dynamic exchange is necessary in at least two cases:
 * CCID-2's Ack Ratio (RFC 4341, 6.1.2) which changes during the connection;
 * Sequence Window values that, as per RFC 4340, 7.5.2, should be sent "as
   as the connection progresses".

Both are NN (non-negotiable) features. Hence dynamic feature "negotiation" is
distinguished from static/pre-connection negotiation by the following:
 * no new capabilities are negotiated (those that matter for the connection
   are negotiated prior to setting up the connection, comparable to SIP);
 * features must be understood by each endpoint: as per RFC 4340, 6.4, 
   Sequence Window is "Req'd" and Ack Ratio must be understood when CCID-2
   is used as per the note underneath Table 4.

These characteristics are reflected in the implementation:
 * only NN options can be exchanged after connection setup;
 * NN options are activated directly after validating them. The rationale is
   that a peer must accept every valid NN value (RFC 4340, 6.3.2), hence it
   will either accept the value and send a "Confirm R", or it will send an
   empty Confirm (which will reset the connection according to FN rules). 
 * An Ack is scheduled directly after activation to accelerate communicating
   the update to the peer.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
76f738a795 dccp: Debugging functions for feature negotiation
Since all feature-negotiation processing now takes place in feat.c, functions
for producing verbose debugging output are concentrated there.

New functions to print out values, entry records, and options are provided,
and also a macro is defined to not always have the function name in the
output line.

Thanks a lot to Wei Yongjun and Giuseppe Galeota for help with errors in an
earlier revision of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
0a4822679d dccp: Initialisation and type-checking of feature sysctls
This patch takes care of initialising and type-checking sysctls related to
feature negotiation. Type checking is important since some of the sysctls
now directly act on the feature-negotiation process.

The sysctls are initialised with the known default values for each feature.
For the type-checking the value constraints from RFC 4340 are used:

 * Sequence Window uses the specified Wmin=32, the maximum is ulong (4 bytes),
   tested and confirmed that it works up to 4294967295 - for Gbps speed;
 * Ack Ratio is between 0 .. 0xffff (2-byte unsigned integer);
 * CCIDs are between 0 .. 255;
 * request_retries, retries1, retries2 also between 0..255 for good measure;
 * tx_qlen is checked to be non-negative;
 * sync_ratelimit remains as before.

Further changes:
----------------
Performed s@sysctl_dccp_feat@sysctl_dccp@g since the sysctls are now in feat.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
51c7d4fa26 dccp: Implement both feature-local and feature-remote Sequence Window feature
This adds full support for local/remote Sequence Window feature, from which the 
  * sequence-number-validity (W) and 
  * acknowledgment-number-validity (W') windows 
derive as specified in RFC 4340, 7.5.3. 

Specifically, the following changes are introduced:
  * integrated new socket fields into dccp_sk;
  * updated the update_gsr/gss routines with regard to these fields;
  * updated handler code: the Sequence Window feature is located at the TX side,
    so the local feature is meant if the handler-rx flag is false;
  * the initialisation of `rcv_wnd' in reqsk is removed, since
    - rcv_wnd is not used by the code anywhere;
    - sequence number checks are not done in the LISTEN state (cf. 7.5.3);
    - dccp_check_req checks the Ack number validity more rigorously;
  * the `struct dccp_minisock' became empty and is now removed.

Until the handshake completes with activating negotiated values, the local/remote
Sequence-Window values are undefined and thus can not reliably be estimated.
This issue is addressed in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
09856c1089 dccp: Auto-load (when supported) CCID plugins for negotiation
This adds auto-loading of CCIDs (when module loading is enabled) 
for the purpose of feature negotiation. 

The problem with loading the CCIDs at the end of feature negotiation is
that this would happen in software interrupt context. Besides, if the host
advertises CCIDs during negotiation, it should have them ready to use, in
case an agreeing peer wants to use it for the connection.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5d3dac267a dccp: Initialisation framework for feature negotiation
This initialises feature negotiation from two tables, which are initialised
from sysctls. 

As a novel feature, specifics of the implementation (e.g. currently short
seqnos and ECN are not supported) are advertised for robustness.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b235dc4abb dccp ccid-2: Phase out the use of boolean Ack Vector sysctl
This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack
Vector feature, which is now handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation;
i.e. when CCID2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled (as per
RFC 4341, 4.).

Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to
crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock /
sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type

	if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector)
		/* ... */
with
	if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL)
		/* ... */

The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature
negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection.
Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child),
so that the test is a valid one.

The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature
negotiation has concluded at the
 * server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives;
 * client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN.

Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been 
removed, since
 (a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received;
 (b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e.
     this entry will always be ignored;
 (c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only
     packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
68e074bfce dccp: Remove manual influence on NDP Count feature
Updating the NDP count feature is handled automatically now:
 * for CCID-2 it is disabled, since the code does not use NDP counts;
 * for CCID-3 it is enabled, as NDP counts are used to determine loss lengths.

Allowing the user to change NDP values leads to unpredictable and failing
behaviour, since it is then possible to disable NDP counts even when they
are needed (e.g. in CCID-3).

This means that only those user settings are sensible that agree with the
values for Send NDP Count implied by the choice of CCID. But those settings
are already activated by the feature negotiation (CCID dependency tracking),
hence this form of support is redundant.

At startup the initialisation of the NDP count feature is with the default
value of 0, which is done implicitly by the zeroing-out of the socket when
it is allocated. If the choice of CCID or feature negotiation enables NDP
count, this will then be updated via the NDP activation handler.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
78673e24df dccp: Remove obsolete parts of the old CCID interface
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector
case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of
feature negotiation may be something different.

The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer
interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs earlier in this
patch set.

Also removed the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the
switch rx/non-rx is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is
the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
23479cbfd3 dccp: Clean up old feature-negotiation infrastructure
The code removed by this patch is no longer referenced or used, the added
lines update documentation and copyrights.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c49b22729f dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 3 (client side)
This integrates feature-activation in the client, with these details:

 1. When dccp_parse_options() fails, the reset code is already set, request_sent
    _state_process() currently overrides this with `Packet Error', which is not
    intended - so changed to use the reset code set in dccp_parse_options();

 2. There was a FIXME to change the error code when dccp_ackvec_add() fails.
    I have looked this up and found that: 
    * the check whether ackno < ISN is already made earlier,
    * this Response is likely the 1st packet with an Ackno that the client gets,
    * so when dccp_ackvec_add() fails, the reason is likely not a packet error.

 3. When feature negotiation fails, the socket should be marked as not usable,
    so that the application is notified that an error occurs. This is achieved
    by a new label, which uses an error code of `Aborted' and which sets the
    socket state to CLOSED, as well as sk_err.

 4. Avoids parsing the Ack twice in Respond state by not doing option processing
    again in dccp_rcv_respond_partopen_state_process (as option processing has
    already been done on the request_sock in dccp_check_req).    

Since this addresses congestion-control initialisation, a corresponding
FIXME has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
e70cacb90d dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 2 (server side)
This patch integrates the activation of features at the end of negotiation
into the server-side code.

Note: 
  In dccp_create_openreq_child the request_sock argument is no longer constant,
  since dccp_activate_values() uses the feature-negotiation list on dreq to sort
  out the initialisation values for the different features of the child socket;
  and purges this queue after use (but the `req' argument to openreq_child
  can and does still remain constant).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
3a53a9adfa dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 1 (socket setup)
This first patch out of three replaces the hardcoded default settings with
initialisation code for the dynamic feature negotiation.

Note on retransmitting Confirm options:
---------------------------------------
This patch also defers flushing the client feature-negotiation queue,
due to the following considerations.

As long as the client is in PARTOPEN, it needs to retransmit the Confirm
options for the Change options received on the DCCP-Response from the server.

Otherwise, if the packet containing the Confirm options gets dropped in the 
network, the connection aborts due to undefined feature negotiation state.

Thanks to Leandro Melo de Sales who reported a bug in an earlier revision
of the patch set, resulting from not retransmitting the Confirm options.

The patch now ensures that the client feature-negotiation queue is flushed only
when entering the OPEN state. Since confirmed Change options are removed as
soon as they are confirmed (in the DCCP-Response), this ensures that Confirm
options are retransmitted.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c926c6aed3 dccp: Feature activation handlers
This patch provides the post-processing of feature negotiation state, after
the negotiation has completed.

To this purpose, handlers are used and added to the dccp_feat_table. Each
handler is passed a boolean flag whether the RX or TX side of the feature
is meant.

Several handlers are provided already, new handlers can easily be added.

The initialisation is now fully dynamic, i.e. CCIDs are activated only
after the feature negotiation. The integration of this dynamic activation
is done in the subsequent patches.

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out the necessity of skipping over empty
Confirm options while copying the negotiated feature values.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d2150b7bff dccp: Processing Confirm options
Analogous to the previous patch, this adds code to interpret incoming Confirm
feature-negotiation options. Both functions operate on the feature-negotiation
list of either the request_sock (server) or the dccp_sock (client).

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out that it is overly restrictive to check
the entire list of confirmed SP values.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5a146b97d5 dccp: Process incoming Change feature-negotiation options
This adds/replaces code for processing incoming ChangeL/R options.
The main difference is that:
 * mandatory FN options are now interpreted inside the function
  (there are too many individual cases to do this externally);
 * the function returns an appropriate Reset code or 0,
   which is then used to fill in the data for the Reset packet.

Old code, which is no longer used or referenced, has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c664d4f4e2 dccp: Preference list reconciliation
This provides two functions to
 * reconcile preference lists (with appropriate return codes) and
 * reorder the preference list if successful reconciliation changed the
   preferred value.

The patch also removes the old code for processing SP/NN Change options, since
new code to process these is mostly there already; related references have been
commented out.

The code for processing Change options follows in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
f8a644c07e dccp: Integrate feature-negotiation insertion code
The patch implements insertion of feature negotiation at the server (listening
and request socket) and the client (connecting socket).

In dccp_insert_options(), several statements have been grouped together now
to achieve (I hope) better efficiency by reducing the number of tests each
packet has to go through:
 - Ack Vectors are sent if the packet is neither a Data or a Request packet;
 - a previous issue is corrected - feature negotiation options are allowed
   on DataAck packets (5.8).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
0ef118a017 dccp: Insert feature-negotiation options into skb
This patch replaces the earlier insertion routine from options.c, so that
code specific to feature negotiation can remain in feat.c. This is possible
by calling a function already existing in options.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
cf9ddf73b9 dccp: Header option insertion routine for feature-negotiation
The patch extends existing code:
 * Confirm options divide into the confirmed value plus an optional preference
   list for SP values. Previously only the preference list was echoed for SP
   values, now the confirmed value is added as per RFC 4340, 6.1;
 * length and sanity checks are added to avoid illegal memory (or NULL) access.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d0440ee6f6 dccp: Support for Mandatory options
Support for Mandatory options is provided by this patch, which will
be used by subsequent feature-negotiation patches.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b9aaac1c53 dccp: Increase the scope of variable-length htonl/ntohl functions
This extends the scope of two available functions, encode|decode_value_var,
to work up to 6 (8) bytes, to match maximum requirements in the RFC.

These functions are going to be used both by general option processing and 
feature negotiation code, hence declarations have been put into feat.h.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c8041e264b dccp: API to query the current TX/RX CCID
This provides function to query the current TX/RX CCID dynamically, without
reliance on the minisock value, using dynamic information available in the
currently loaded CCID module.

This query function is then used to 
 (a) provide the getsockopt part for getting/setting CCIDs via sockopts;
 (b) replace the current test for "which CCID is in use" in probe.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
fade756f18 dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket options
With this patch, TX/RX CCIDs can now be changed on a per-connection basis, which
overrides the defaults set by the global sysctl variables for TX/RX CCIDs.

To make full use of this facility, the remaining patches of this patch set are
needed, which track dependencies and activate negotiated feature values.

Note on the maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered:
-----------------------------------------------------------
The maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered on the socket is constrained
by the space in a Confirm/Change feature negotiation option. 

The space in these in turn depends on the size of header options as defined
in RFC 4340, 5.8. Since this is a recurring constant, it has been moved from
ackvec.h into linux/dccp.h, clarifying its purpose.

Relative to this size, the maximum number of CCID identifiers that can be 
present in a Confirm option (which always consumes 1 byte more than a Change
option, cf. 6.1) is 2 bytes less than the maximum TLV size: one for the
CCID-feature-type and one for the selected value.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
73bbe095bb dccp: Tidy up setsockopt calls
This splits the setsockopt calls into two groups, depending on whether an
integer argument (val) is required and whether routines being called do
their own locking.

Some options (such as setting the CCID) use u8 rather than int, so that for
these the test with regard to integer-sizeof can not be used.

The second switch-case statement now only has those statements which need
locking and which make use of `val'.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
17c30b40ed dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since
 * Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4,
 * Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1);
 * even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it:
   - Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2),
   - if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts 
     (since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window),
   - cwnd is not a user-configurable value.	

The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is
planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe.

With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation:
 * Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID;
 * if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to
   the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack
   Ratio 2 for both endpoints";
 * what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the 
   dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight.

Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
20f41eee82 dccp: Feature negotiation for minimum-checksum-coverage
This provides feature negotiation for server minimum checksum coverage
which so far has been missing.

Since sender/receiver coverage values range only from 0...15, their
type has also been reduced in size from u16 to u4.

Feature-negotiation options are now generated for both sender and receiver
coverage, i.e. when the peer has `forgotten' to enable partial coverage
then feature negotiation will automatically enable (negotiate) the partial
coverage value for this connection.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
668144f7b4 dccp: Deprecate old setsockopt framework
The previous setsockopt interface, which passed socket options via struct 
dccp_so_feat, is complicated/difficult to use. Continuing to support it leads to
ugly code since the old approach did not distinguish between NN and SP values.

This patch removes the old setsockopt interface and replaces it with two new
functions to register NN/SP values for feature negotiation. These are 
essentially wrappers around the internal __feat_register functions, with 
checking added to avoid
 * wrong usage (type);
 * changing values while the connection is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d4c8741c43 dccp: Mechanism to resolve CCID dependencies
This adds a hook to resolve features whose value depends on the choice of
CCID. It is done at the server since it can only be done after the CCID
values have been negotiated; i.e. the client will add its CCID preference
list on the Change options sent in the Request, which will be reconciled
with the local preference list of the server.

The concept is documented on 
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\
				implementation_notes.html#ccid_dependencies

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
093e1f46cf dccp: Resolve dependencies of features on choice of CCID
This provides a missing link in the code chain, as several features implicitly
depend and/or rely on the choice of CCID. Most notably, this is the Send Ack Vector
feature, but also Ack Ratio and Send Loss Event Rate (also taken care of).

For Send Ack Vector, the situation is as follows:
 * since CCID2 mandates the use of Ack Vectors, there is no point in allowing 
   endpoints which use CCID2 to disable Ack Vector features such a connection;

 * a peer with a TX CCID of CCID2 will always expect Ack Vectors, and a peer
   with a RX CCID of CCID2 must always send Ack Vectors (RFC 4341, sec. 4);

 * for all other CCIDs, the use of (Send) Ack Vector is optional and thus
   negotiable. However, this implies that the code negotiating the use of Ack
   Vectors also supports it (i.e. is able to supply and to either parse or
   ignore received Ack Vectors). Since this is not the case (CCID-3 has no Ack
   Vector support), the use of Ack Vectors is here disabled, with a comment
   in the source code.

An analogous consideration arises for the Send Loss Event Rate feature,
since the CCID-3 implementation does not support the loss interval options
of RFC 4342. To make such use explicit, corresponding feature-negotiation
options are inserted which signal the use of the loss event rate option,
as it is used by the CCID3 code.

Lastly, the values of the Ack Ratio feature are matched to the choice of CCID.

The patch implements this as a function which is called after the user has
made all other registrations for changing default values of features.

The table is variable-length, the reserved (and hence for feature-negotiation
invalid, confirmed by considering section 19.4 of RFC 4340) feature number `0'
is used to mark the end of the table.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
71bb49596b dccp: Query supported CCIDs
This provides a data structure to record which CCIDs are locally supported
and three accessor functions:
 - a test function for internal use which is used to validate CCID requests
   made by the user;
 - a copy function so that the list can be used for feature-negotiation;   
 - documented getsockopt() support so that the user can query capabilities.

The data structure is a table which is filled in at compile-time with the
list of available CCIDs (which in turn depends on the Kconfig choices).

Using the copy function for cloning the list of supported CCIDs is useful for
feature negotiation, since the negotiation is now with the full list of available
CCIDs (e.g. {2, 3}) instead of the default value {2}. This means negotiation 
will not fail if the peer requests to use CCID3 instead of CCID2. 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
86349c8d9c dccp: Registration routines for changing feature values
Two registration routines, for SP and NN features, are provided by this patch,
replacing a previous routine which was used for both feature types.

These are internal-only routines and therefore start with `__feat_register'.

It further exports the known limits of Sequence Window and Ack Ratio as symbolic
constants.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5591d28628 dccp: Limit feature negotiation to connection setup phase
This patch starts the new implementation of feature negotiation:
 1. Although it is theoretically possible to perform feature negotiation at any
    time (and RFC 4340 supports this), in practice this is prohibitively complex,
    as it requires to put traffic on hold for each new negotiation.
 2. As a byproduct of restricting feature negotiation to connection setup, the
    feature-negotiation retransmit timer is no longer required. This part is now
    mapped onto the protocol-level retransmission.
    Details indicating why timers are no longer needed can be found on
    http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\
	                                      implementation_notes.html

This patch disables anytime negotiation, subsequent patches work out full
feature negotiation support for connection setup.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
702083839b dccp: Cleanup routines for feature negotiation
This inserts the required de-allocation routines for memory allocated by 
feature negotiation in the socket destructors, replacing dccp_feat_clean()
in one instance.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
828755cee0 dccp: Per-socket initialisation of feature negotiation
This provides feature-negotiation initialisation for both DCCP sockets and
DCCP request_sockets, to support feature negotiation during connection setup.

It also resolves a FIXME regarding the congestion control initialisation.

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for help with the IPv6 side of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
3001fc0569 dccp: List management for new feature negotiation
This adds list fields and list management functions for the new feature
negotiation implementation. The new code is kept in parallel to the old
code, until removed at the end of the patch set.

Thanks to Arnaldo for suggestions to improve the code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b4eec20637 dccp: Implement lookup table for feature-negotiation information
A lookup table for feature-negotiation information, extracted from RFC 4340/42,
is provided by this patch. All currently known features can be found in this 
table, along with their feature location, their default value, and type.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5c7c9451f1 dccp: Basic data structure for feature negotiation
This patch prepares for the new and extended feature-negotiation routines.

The following feature-negotiation data structures are provided:
	* a container for the various (SP or NN) values,
	* symbolic state names to track feature states,
	* an entry struct which holds all current information together,
	* elementary functions to fill in and process these structures.

Entry structs are arranged as FIFO for the following reason: RFC 4340 specifies
that if multiple options of the same type are present, they are processed in the
order of their appearance in the packet; which means that this order needs to be
preserved in the local data structure (the later insertion code also respects
this order).

The struct list_head has been chosen for the following reasons: the most 
frequent operations are
 * add new entry at tail (when receiving Change or setting socket options);
 * delete entry (when Confirm has been received);
 * deep copy of entire list (cloning from listening socket onto request socket).

The NN value has been set to 64 bit, which is a currently sufficient upper limit
(Sequence Window feature has 48 bit).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
959fd992f0 dccp ccid-3: Replace lazy BUG_ON with condition
The BUG_ON(w_tot == 0) only holds if there is no more than 1 loss interval in
the loss history. If there is only a single loss interval, the calc_i_mean()
routine need in fact not be called (RFC 3448, 6.3.1). 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
432649916b dccp: Toggle debug output without module unloading
This sets the sysfs permissions so that root can toggle the `debug'
parameter available for nearly every DCCP module. This is useful 
since there are various module inter-dependencies. The debug flag
can now be toggled at runtime using

  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp/parameters/dccp_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_ccid2/parameters/ccid2_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_ccid3/parameters/ccid3_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_tfrc_lib/parameters/tfrc_debug

The last is not very useful yet, since no code at the moment calls
the tfrc_debug() macro.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
48816322ad dccp: Empty the write queue when disconnecting
dccp_disconnect() can be called due to several reasons:

 1. when the connection setup failed (inet_stream_connect());
 2. when shutting down (inet_shutdown(), inet_csk_listen_stop());
 3. when aborting the connection (dccp_close() with 0 linger time).

In case (1) the write queue is empty. This patch empties the write queue,
if in case (2) or (3) it was not yet empty.

This avoids triggering the write-queue BUG_TRAP in sk_stream_kill_queues()
later on.

It also seems natural to do: when breaking an association, to delete all
packets that were originally intended for the soon-disconnected end (compare
with call to tcp_write_queue_purge in tcp_disconnect()).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
eac7726bf5 dccp: Fill in the Data fields for "Option Error" Resets
This updates the use of the `out_invalid_option' label, which produces a 
Reset (code 5, "Option Error"), to fill in the  Data1...Data3 fields as
specified in RFC 4340, 5.6.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
faf61c3319 dccp: Silently ignore options with nonsensical lengths
This updates the option-parsing code with regard to RFC 4340, 5.8:
 "[..] options with nonsensical lengths (length byte less than two or more
  than the remaining space in the options portion of the header) MUST be
  ignored, and any option space following an option with nonsensical length
  MUST likewise be ignored."

Hence in the following cases erratic options will be ignored:
 1. The type byte of a multi-byte option is the last byte of the header
    options (i.e. effective option length of 1).
 2. The value of the length byte is less than the minimum 2. This has been 
    changed from previously 3: although no multi-byte option with a length
    less than 3 yet exists (cf. table 3 in 5.8), a length of 2 is valid.
    (The switch-statement in dccp_parse has further per-option length checks.)
 3. The option length exceeds the length of the remaining option space.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:24 +02:00
Wei Yongjun
ba1a6c7bc0 dccp: Always generate a Reset in response to option errors
RFC4340 states that if a packet is received with an option error (such as a
Mandatory Option as the last byte of the option list), the endpoint should
repond with a Reset.

In the LISTEN and RESPOND states, the endpoint correctly reponds with Reset,
while in the REQUEST/OPEN states, packets with option errors are just ignored.

The packet sequence is as follows:

Case 1:

  Endpoint A                           Endpoint B
  (CLOSED)                             (CLOSED)

               <----------------       REQUEST

  RESPONSE     ----------------->      (*1)
  (with invalid option)
               <----------------       RESET
                                       (with Reset Code 5, "Option Error")

  (*1) currently just ignored, no Reset is sent

Case 2:

  Endpoint A                           Endpoint B
  (OPEN)                               (OPEN)

  DATA-ACK     ----------------->      (*2)
  (with invalid option)
               <----------------       RESET
                                       (with Reset Code 5, "Option Error")

  (*2) currently just ignored, no Reset is sent

This patch fixes the problem, by generating a Reset instead of silently
ignoring option errors.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
316343e2cf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  bnx2x: Accessing un-mapped page
  ath9k: Fix TX control flag use for no ACK and RTS/CTS
  ath9k: Fix TX status reporting
  iwlwifi: fix STATUS_EXIT_PENDING is not set on pci_remove
  iwlwifi: call apm stop on exit
  iwlwifi: fix Tx cmd memory allocation failure handling
  iwlwifi: fix rx_chain computation
  iwlwifi: fix station mimo power save values
  iwlwifi: remove false rxon if rx chain changes
  iwlwifi: fix hidden ssid discovery in passive channels
  iwlwifi: W/A for the TSF correction in IBSS
  netxen: Remove workaround for chipset quirk
  pcnet-cs, axnet_cs: add new IDs, remove dup ID with less info
  ixgbe: initialize interrupt throttle rate
  net/usb/pegasus: avoid hundreds of diagnostics
  tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.
2008-09-03 16:21:02 -07:00
David S. Miller
6c00055a81 tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.
Andrew Morton reported a build failure on sparc32, because TIPC
uses names like "struct node" and there is a like named data
structure defined in linux/node.h

This just regexp replaces "struct node*" to "struct tipc_node*"
to avoid this and any future similar problems.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-02 23:38:32 -07:00