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Simon Wunderlich
e19f9759ed batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:19 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
c039876892 batman-adv: add WiFi penalty
If the same interface is used for sending and receiving, there might be
throughput degradation on half-duplex interfaces such as WiFi. Add a
penalty if the same interface is used to reflect this problem in the
metric. At the same time, change the hop penalty from 30 to 15 so there
will be no change for single wifi mesh network. the effective hop
penalty will stay at 30 due to the new wifi penalty for these networks.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:13 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
42cb0bef01 batman-adv: set the isolation mark in the skb if needed
If a broadcast packet is coming from a client marked as
isolated, then mark the skb using the isolation mark so
that netfilter (or any other application) can recognise
them.

The mark is written in the skb based on the mask value:
only bits set in the mask are substitued by those in the
mark value

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:46 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
9464d07188 batman-adv: mark a local client as isolated when needed
A client sending packets which mark matches the value
configured via sysfs has to be identified as isolated using
the TT_CLIENT_ISOLA flag.

The match is mask based, meaning that only bits set in the
mask are compared with those in the mark value.

If the configured mask is equal to 0 no operation is
performed.

Such flag is then advertised within the classic client
announcement mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:43 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
c42edfe382 batman-adv: add isolation_mark sysfs attribute
This attribute can be used to set and read the value and the
mask of the skb mark which will be used to classify the
source non-mesh client as ISOLATED. In this way a client can
be advertised as such and the mark can potentially be
restored at the receiving node before delivering the skb.

This can be helpful for creating network wide netfilter
policies.

This sysfs file expects a string of the shape "$mark/$mask".
Where $mark has to be a 32-bit number in any base, while
$mask must be a 32bit mask expressed in hex base. Only bits
in $mark covered by the bitmask are really stored.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:42 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
6c413b1c22 batman-adv: send every DHCP packet as bat-unicast
In different situations it is possible that the DHCP server
or client uses broadcast Ethernet frames to send messages
to each other. The GW component in batman-adv takes care of
using bat-unicast packets to bring broadcast DHCP
Discover/Requests to the "best" server.

On the way back the DHCP server usually sends unicasts,
but upon client request it may decide to use broadcasts as
well.

This patch improves the GW component so that it now snoops
and sends as unicast all the DHCP packets, no matter if they
were generated by a DHCP server or client.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:42 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
ebf38fb7ab batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:39 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
2b1e2cb359 batman-adv: fix vlan header access
When batadv_get_vid() is invoked in interface_rx() the
batman-adv header has already been removed, therefore
the header_len argument has to be 0.

Introduced by c018ad3de6
("batman-adv: add the VLAN ID attribute to the TT entry")

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-12-28 14:48:40 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
55883fd104 batman-adv: clean nf state when removing protocol header
If an interface enslaved into batman-adv is a bridge (or a
virtual interface built on top of a bridge) the nf_bridge
member of the skbs reaching the soft-interface is filled
with the state about "netfilter bridge" operations.

Then, if one of such skbs is locally delivered, the nf_bridge
member should be cleaned up to avoid that the old state
could mess up with other "netfilter bridge" operations when
entering a second bridge.
This is needed because batman-adv is an encapsulation
protocol.

However at the moment skb->nf_bridge is not released at all
leading to bogus "netfilter bridge" behaviours.

Fix this by cleaning the netfilter state of the skb before
it gets delivered to the upper layer in interface_rx().

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-12-28 14:47:44 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
a40d9b075c batman-adv: fix header alignment by unrolling batadv_header
The size of the batadv_header of 3 is problematic on some architectures
which automatically pad all structures to a 32 bit boundary. To not lose
performance by packing this struct, better embed it into the various
host structures.

Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-12-28 12:51:16 +01:00
Marek Lindner
a19d3d85e1 batman-adv: limit local translation table max size
The local translation table size is limited by what can be
transferred from one node to another via a full table request.

The number of entries fitting into a full table request depend
on whether the fragmentation is enabled or not. Therefore this
patch introduces a max table size check and refuses to add
more local clients when that size is reached. Moreover, if the
max full table packet size changes (MTU change or fragmentation
is disabled) the local table is downsized instantaneously.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-10-23 17:03:43 +02:00
Linus Lüssing
e300d31466 batman-adv: refine API calls for unicast transmissions of SKBs
With this patch the functions batadv_send_skb_unicast() and
batadv_send_skb_unicast_4addr() are further refined into
batadv_send_skb_via_tt(), batadv_send_skb_via_tt_4addr() and
batadv_send_skb_via_gw(). This way we avoid any "guessing" about where to send
a packet in the unicast forwarding methods and let the callers decide.

This is going to be useful for the upcoming multicast related patches in
particular.

Further, the return values were polished a little to use the more
appropriate NET_XMIT_* defines.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-19 17:31:54 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
b8cbd81d09 batman-adv: make the AP isolation attribute VLAN specific
AP isolation has to be enabled on one VLAN interface only.
This patch moves the AP isolation attribute to the per-vlan
interface attribute set, enabling it to have a different
value depending on the selected vlan.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 17:28:47 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
90f4435da4 batman-adv: add sysfs framework for VLAN
Each VLAN can now have its own set of attributes which are
exported through a new subfolder in the sysfs tree.
Each VLAN created on top of a soft_iface will have its own
subfolder.

The subfolder is named "vlan%VID" and it is created inside
the "mesh" sysfs folder belonging to batman-adv.

Attributes corresponding to the untagged LAN are stored in
the root sysfs folder as before.

This patch also creates all the needed macros and data
structures to easily handle new VLAN spacific attributes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 17:28:42 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
5d2c05b213 batman-adv: add per VLAN interface attribute framework
Since batman-adv is now fully VLAN-aware, a proper framework
able to handle per-vlan-interface attributes is needed.

Those attributes will affect the associated VLAN interface
only, rather than the real soft_iface (which would result
in every vlan interface having the same attribute
configuration).

To make the code simpler and easier to extend, attributes
associated to the standalone soft_iface are now treated
like belonging to yet another vlan having a special vid.
This vid is different from the others because it is made up
by all zeros and the VLAN_HAS_TAG bit is not set.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 17:28:08 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
c018ad3de6 batman-adv: add the VLAN ID attribute to the TT entry
To make the translation table code VLAN-aware, each entry
must carry the VLAN ID which it belongs to. This patch adds
such attribute to the related TT structures.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 15:11:21 +02:00
Linus Lüssing
a4deee1ad4 batman-adv: Add dummy soft-interface rx mode handler
We do not actually need to set any rx filters for the virtual batman
soft interface. However a dummy handler enables a user to set static
multicast listeners for instance.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 17:17:12 +02:00
Marek Lindner
411d6ed93a batman-adv: consider network coding overhead when calculating required mtu
The module prints a warning when the MTU on the hard interface is too
small to transfer payload traffic without fragmentation. The required
MTU is calculated based on the encapsulation header size. If network
coding is compild into the module its header size is taken into
account as well.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 17:17:09 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
293e93385e batman-adv: use htons when possible
When comparing a network ordered value with a constant, it
is better to convert the constant at compile time by means
of htons() instead of converting the value at runtime using
ntohs().

This refactoring may slightly improve the code performance.

Moreover substitute __constant_htons() with htons() since
the latter increase readability and it is smart enough to be
as efficient as the former

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
2013-10-12 11:59:23 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll
ee75ed8887 batman-adv: Fragment and send skbs larger than mtu
Non-broadcast packets larger than MTU are fragmented and sent with
an encapsulating header. Up to 16 fragments are supported, which are
sent in reverse order on the wire to allow minimal memory copying when
creating fragments.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:35 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll
610bfc6bc9 batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge
Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge.
Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never
been fragmented.

Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing
interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:34 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll
f097e25dbe batman-adv: Remove old fragmentation code
Remove the existing fragmentation code before adding the new version
and delete unicast.{h,c}.

batadv_unicast_send_skb() is moved to send.c and renamed to
batadv_send_skb_unicast().

fragmentation entry in sysfs (bat_priv->fragmentation) is kept for use in
the new fragmentation code.

BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet type is renamed to BATADV_FRAG for use in the
new fragmentation code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:33 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
9f4980e68b batman-adv: remove vis functionality
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:32 +02:00
Marek Lindner
414254e342 batman-adv: tvlv - gateway download/upload bandwidth container
Prior to this patch batman-adv read the advertised uplink bandwidth
from userspace and compressed this information into a single byte
called "gateway class".
Now the download & upload bandwidth information is sent as-is. No
userspace change is necessary since the sysfs API always allowed
to specify a bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Spyros Gasteratos <morfeas3000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:27 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
4c18c425b2 batman-adv: set the TAG flag for the vid passed to BLA
When receiving or sending a packet a packet on a VLAN, the
vid has to be marked with the TAG flag in order to make any
component in batman-adv understand that the packet is coming
from a really tagged network.

This fix the Bridge Loop Avoidance behaviour which was not
able to send announces over VLAN interfaces.

Introduced by 0b1da1765fdb00ca5d53bc95c9abc70dfc9aae5b
("batman-adv: change VID semantic in the BLA code")

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.org>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-09-17 21:15:16 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
c54f38c9aa batman-adv: set skb priority according to content
The skb priority field may help the wireless driver to choose the right
queue (e.g. WMM queues). This should be set in batman-adv, as this
information is only available here.

This patch adds support for IPv4/IPv6 DS fields and VLAN PCP. Note that
only VLAN PCP is used if a VLAN header is present. Also initially set
TC_PRIO_CONTROL only for self-generated packets, and keep the priority
set by higher layers.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-08-28 11:31:50 +02:00
Linus Lüssing
9d2c9488ce batman-adv: fix potential kernel paging errors for unicast transmissions
There are several functions which might reallocate skb data. Currently
some places keep reusing their old ethhdr pointer regardless of whether
they became invalid after such a reallocation or not. This potentially
leads to kernel paging errors.

This patch fixes these by refetching the ethdr pointer after the
potential reallocations.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-08-10 22:55:42 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
eb2deb6b39 batman-adv: change VID semantic in the BLA code
In order to make batman-adv fully vlan aware later, the
semantic used for variables storing the VLAN ID values has
to be changed in order to be adapted to the new one which
will be used batman-adv wide.

In particular, the VID has to be an "_unsigned_ short int"
and its 4 MSB will be used as a flag bitfield, while the
remaining 12 bits are used to store the real VID value

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
2013-05-29 02:44:55 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
7ed4be9523 batman-adv: use eth_hdr() when it makes sense
Instead of casting the result of skb_mac_header() to
"struct ethhdr *" every time, the eth_hdr inline function
can be use to beautify the code and improve its readability.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-05-29 02:44:54 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll
f69ae770e7 batman-adv: Avoid double freeing of bat_counters
On errors in batadv_mesh_init(), bat_counters will be freed in both
batadv_mesh_free() and batadv_softif_init_late(). This patch fixes this
by returning earlier from batadv_softif_init_late() in case of errors in
batadv_mesh_init() and by setting bat_counters to NULL after freeing.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-21 21:34:36 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
0c501345ce batman-adv: fix global protection fault during soft_iface destruction
batadv_mesh_free() schedules some RCU callbacks which need the bat_priv struct
to do their jobs, while free_netdev(), which is called immediately after, is
destroying the private data.

Put an rcu_barrier() in the middle so that free_netdev() is invoked only after
all the callbacks returned.

This bug has been introduced by ab8f433dd39be94e8617cff2dfe9f7eca162eb15
("batman-adv: Move deinitialization of soft-interface to destructor")

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-22 20:40:48 -04:00
Sven Eckelmann
3dbd550b8b batman-adv: Allow to modify slaves of soft-interfaces through rntl_link
The sysfs configuration interface of batman-adv to add/remove slaves of an
soft-iface is not deadlock free and doesn't follow the currently common way to
modify slaves of an interface.

An additional configuration interface though rtnl_link is introduced which
provides easy device adding/removing with tools like "ip":
$ ip link set dev eth0 master bat0
$ ip link set dev eth0 nomaster

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:29:52 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
a4ac28c0d0 batman-adv: Allow to use rntl_link for device creation/deletion
The sysfs configuration interface of batman-adv to add/remove soft-interfaces
is not deadlock free and doesn't follow the currently common way to create new
virtual interfaces.

An additional interface though rtnl_link is introduced which provides easy device
creation/deletion with tools like "ip":

$ ip link add dev bat0 type batadv
$ ip link del dev bat0

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:34 +01:00
Marek Lindner
e07932ae6f batman-adv: rename batadv_softif_destroy to reflect sysfs use case
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
CC: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:33 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
b3246020e2 batman-adv: Move deinitialization of soft-interface to destructor
The deinitialization of the soft-interface created in ndo_init/constructor
should be done in the destructor and not directly before calling
unregister_netdevice

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:32 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
37130293fd batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init
The initialization of an net_device object should be done in the
init/constructor function and not from the outside after the register_netdevice
was done to avoid race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:31 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
2df5278b02 batman-adv: network coding - receive coded packets and decode them
When receiving a network coded packet, the decoding buffer is searched
for a packet to use for decoding. The source, destination, and crc32 from
the coded packet is used to identify the wanted packet. The decoded
packet is passed to the usual unicast receiver function, as had it never
been network coded.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:51 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
612d2b4fe0 batman-adv: network coding - save overheard and tx packets for decoding
To be able to decode a network coded packet, a node must already know
one of the two coded packets. This is done by buffering skbs before
transmission and buffering packets sniffed with promiscuous mode from
other hosts.

Packets are kept in a buffer similar to the one with forward-skbs: A
hash table, where each entry, which corresponds to a src-dst pair, has a
linked list packets.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:50 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
3c12de9a5c batman-adv: network coding - code and transmit packets if possible
Before adding forward-skbs to the coding buffer, the buffer is searched
for a potential coding opportunity. If one is found, the two packets are
network coded and transmitted right away. If not, the forward-skb is
added to the buffer.

Network coded packets are transmitted with information about the two
receivers and the two coded packets. The first receiver is given by the
MAC header, while the second is given in the payload/bat-header. The
second receiver uses promiscuous mode to receive the packet and check
the second destination.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:50 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
d353d8d4d9 batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code
Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <--- p2 ----  Node R                Node B
 4.  Node A                Node R  ---- p1 --->  Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <- p1 x p2 -  Node R  - p1 x p2 ->  Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

   Node A                  Node B

    |     \              /    |
    |      p1          p2     |
    |       \          /      |
    p1       > Node R <       p2
    |                         |
    |         /      \        |
    |    p1 x p2    p1 x p2   |
    v       /          \      v
           /            \
   Node C <              > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:48 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
0b87393146 batman-adv: update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-19 21:18:12 +08:00
Simon Wunderlich
5bc44dc845 batman-adv: postpone sysfs removal when unregistering
When processing the unregister notify for a hard interface, removing
the sysfs files may lead to a circular deadlock (rtnl mutex <->
s_active).

To overcome this problem, postpone the sysfs removal in a worker.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-19 21:18:12 +08:00
Marek Lindner
0c430d0d7b batman-adv: unbloat batadv_priv if debug is not enabled
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-12 20:58:23 +10:00
Antonio Quartulli
fa706554d6 batman-adv: don't compile the BLA switch if not requested
When the Bridge Loop Avoidance component is not compiled-in, its boolean switch
should be not compiled as well. This patch surrounds the switch with a proper
ifdef.

This behaviour was introduced by 9fd6b0615b5499b270d39a92b8790e206cf75833
("batman-adv: add bridge loop avoidance compile option")

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-12 20:58:22 +10:00
Linus Lüssing
02233e0c75 batman-adv: Do not add multicast MAC addresses to translation table
The current translation table mechanism is not suitable for multicast
addresses and we are currently flooding such frames anyway.

Therefore this patch prevents multicast MAC addresses being added to the
translation table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-12 20:58:19 +10:00
Jiri Pirko
7826d43f2d ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in drivers
Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-06 21:06:31 -08:00
Jiri Pirko
15c6ff3bc0 net: remove unnecessary NET_ADDR_RANDOM "bitclean"
NET_ADDR_SET is set in dev_set_mac_address() no need to alter
dev->addr_assign_type value in drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-03 22:37:36 -08:00
Antonio Quartulli
af5d4f7737 batman-adv: use ETH_P_BATMAN
The ETH_P_BATMAN ethertype is now defined kernel-wide. Use it instead
of the private BATADV_ETH_P_BATMAN define.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2012-11-30 10:50:22 +01:00
David S. Miller
67f4efdce7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Minor line offset auto-merges.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-17 22:00:43 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli
74490f9691 batman-adv: process broadcast packets in BLA earlier
The logic in the BLA mechanism may decide to drop broadcast packets
because the node may still be in the setup phase. For this reason,
further broadcast processing like the early client detection mechanism
must be done only after the BLA check.

This patches moves the invocation to BLA before any other broadcast
processing.

This was introduced 30cfd02b60
("batman-adv: detect not yet announced clients")

Reported-by: Glen Page <glen.page@thet.net>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2012-11-16 09:36:54 +01:00