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2011-07-07batman-adv: keep local table consistency for further TT_RESPONSEAntonio Quartulli1-3/+1
To keep transtable consistency among all the nodes, an originator must not send not yet announced clients within a full table TT_RESPONSE. Instead, deleted client have to be kept in the table in order to be sent within an immediate TT_RESPONSE. In this way all the nodes in the network will always provide the same response for the same request. All the modification are committed at the next ttvn increment event. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-07-05batman-adv: broadcast primary OGM on all active hard-interfacesMarek Lindner1-4/+13
The primary interface OGM has to be broadcasted on all hard-interfaces even if the primary interface is not the first interface (if_num = 0). Therefore the code has to compare the originating interface with the primary interface instead of checking the if_num. Reported-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-07-05batman-adv: add_bcast_packet_to_list() takes the sending delay as parameterAntonio Quartulli1-2/+2
In order to make possible to use the broadcast list for delayed sendings the "delay" parameter is now provided instead of using 1 as hardcoded value. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved roaming mechanismAntonio Quartulli1-0/+1
With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming, an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover its connections. A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this issue. This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery delay. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanismAntonio Quartulli1-20/+67
The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that client from any given point in the mesh. The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables (table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the client is connected to and its address in the global translation table. It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several issues: - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of connected clients) - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and OGM losses The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the overhead within the OGMs. To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to determine whether or not they need to update their translation table information. When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20batman-adv: Reduce usage of charSven Eckelmann1-3/+3
char was used in different places to store information without really using the characteristics of that data type or by ignoring the fact that char has not a well defined signedness. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-09batman-adv: use NO_FLAGS define instead of hard-coding 0Marek Lindner1-1/+1
The definition NO_FLAGS was introduced to make the code more readable and shall be used to initialize flag fields. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30batman-adv: Calculate sizeof using variable insead of typesSven Eckelmann1-9/+8
Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use the form p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); to calculate the size of a struct and not the version where the struct name is spelled out to prevent bugs when the type of p changes. This also seems appropriate for manipulation of buffers when they are directly associated with p. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30batman-adv: Add const type qualifier for pointersSven Eckelmann1-13/+14
batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a cast to the non-const version. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-15batman-adv: reset broadcast flood protection on errorMarek Lindner1-1/+1
The broadcast flood protection should be reset to its original value if the primary interface could not be retrieved. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-15batman-adv: Add missing hardif_free_ref in forw_packet_freeSven Eckelmann1-2/+15
add_bcast_packet_to_list increases the refcount for if_incoming but the reference count is never decreased. The reference count must be increased for all kinds of forwarded packets which have the primary interface stored and forw_packet_free must decrease them. Also purge_outstanding_packets has to invoke forw_packet_free when a work item was really cancelled. This regression was introduced in 32ae9b221e788413ce68feaae2ca39e406211a0a. Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)Antonio Quartulli1-8/+8
To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed to the TranslationTable style Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-01batman-adv: Make bat_priv->primary_if an rcu protected pointerMarek Lindner1-4/+13
The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() for the bat_priv->primary_if need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking. Otherwise we might end up using a primary_if pointer pointing to already freed memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-01batman-adv: Move definition of atomic_dec_not_zero() into main.hAntonio Quartulli1-1/+0
atomic_dec_not_zero() is very useful and it is currently defined multiple times. So it is possible to move it in main.h Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-04-17batman-adv: Make orig_node->router an rcu protected pointerLinus Lüssing1-7/+12
The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() for the orig_node->router need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking. Otherwise we might end up using a router pointer pointing to already freed memory. Therefore this commit introduces the safe getter method orig_node_get_router(). Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-03-05batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_ifaceMarek Lindner1-50/+51
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: rename global if_list to hardif_listMarek Lindner1-2/+2
Batman-adv works with "hard interfaces" as well as "soft interfaces". The new name should better make clear which kind of interfaces this list stores. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: separate ethernet comparing calls from hash functionsMarek Lindner1-1/+1
Note: The function compare_ether_addr() provided by the Linux kernel requires aligned memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-02-11batman-adv: Remove duplicate types.h inclusionsLinus Lüssing1-1/+0
types.h is included by main.h, which is included at the beginning of any other c-file anyway. Therefore this commit removes those duplicate inclussions. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31batman-adv: remove unused parametersSimon Wunderlich1-2/+2
Some function parameters are obsolete now and can be removed. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann1-0/+585
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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