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2017-09-28batman-adv: Remove unnecessary parenthesesSven Eckelmann
checkpatch introduced with commit 63b7c73ec86b ("checkpatch: add --strict check for ifs with unnecessary parentheses") an additional test which identifies some unnecessary parentheses. Remove these unnecessary parentheses to avoid the warnings and to unify the coding style slightly more. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-01-26batman-adv: update copyright years for 2017Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-10-19batman-adv: Use octal permissions instead of macrosSven Eckelmann
Linus prefers to have octal permission numbers instead of combinations of macro names ("random line noise"). Also old existing "bad symbolic permission bit macro use" should be converted to octal numbers. (http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com) Also remove the S_IFREG bit from the octal representation because it is filtered out by debugfs_create. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09batman-adv: disable sysfs knobs when GW-mode is not implementedAntonio Quartulli
Now that the GW-mode code is algorithm specific, batman-adv expects the routing algorithm to implement some APIs to make it work. However, such APIs are not mandatory, therefore we might have algorithms not providing them. In this case all the sysfs knobs related to GW-mode should be deactivated to make sure that settings injected by the user for this feature are rejected. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09batman-adv: make the GW selection class algorithm specificAntonio Quartulli
The B.A.T.M.A.N. V algorithm uses a different metric compared to its predecessor and for this reason the logic used to compute the best Gateway is also changed. This means that the GW selection class fed to this logic has a semantics that depends on the algorithm being used. Make the parsing and printing routine of the GW selection class routing algorithm specific. Each algorithm can now parse (and print) this value independently. If no API is provided by any algorithm, the default is to use the current mechanism of considering such value like an integer between 1 and 255. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09batman-adv: Avoid sysfs name collision for netns movesSven Eckelmann
The kobject_put is only removing the sysfs entry and corresponding entries when its reference counter becomes zero. This tends to lead to collisions when a device is moved between two different network namespaces because some of the sysfs files have to be removed first and then added again to the already moved sysfs entry. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 290 at lib/kobject.c:240 kobject_add_internal+0x5ec/0x8a0 kobject_add_internal failed for batman_adv with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. But the caller of kobject_put can already remove the sysfs entry before it does the kobject_put. This removal is done even when the reference counter is not yet zero and thus avoids the problem. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09batman-adv: Modify mesh_iface outside sysfs contextSven Eckelmann
The legacy sysfs interface to modify interfaces belonging to batman-adv is run inside a region holding s_lock. And to add a net_device, it has to also get the rtnl_lock. This is exactly the other way around than in other virtual net_devices and conflicts with netdevice notifier which executes inside rtnl_lock. The inverted lock situation is currently solved by executing the removal of netdevices via workqueue. The workqueue isn't executed inside rtnl_lock and thus can independently get the s_lock and the rtnl_lock. But this workaround fails when the netdevice notifier creates events in quick succession and the earlier triggered removal of a net_device isn't processed in the workqueue before the adding of the new netdevice (with same name) event is issued. Instead the legacy sysfs interface store events have to be enqueued in a workqueue to loose the s_lock. The worker is then free to get the required locks and the deadlock is avoided. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04batman-adv: split routing API data structure in subobjectsAntonio Quartulli
The routing API data structure contains several function pointers that can easily be grouped together based on the component they work with. Split the API in subobjects in order to improve definition readability. At the same time, remove the "bat_" prefix from the API object and its fields names. These are batman-adv private structs and there is no need to always prepend such prefix, which only makes function invocations much much longer. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functionsSven Eckelmann
There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them easier to find. Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: Keep includes ordered by filenameSven Eckelmann
It is easier to detect if a include is already there for a used functionality when the includes are ordered. Using an alphabetic order together with the grouping in commit 1e2c2a4fe4a5 ("batman-adv: Add required includes to all files") makes includes better manageable. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: move GW mode and selection class to private data structureAntonio Quartulli
To reduce the field pollution in our main batadv_priv data structure we've already created some substructures so that we could group fields in a convenient manner. However gw_mode and gw_sel_class are still part of the main object. More both fields to the GW private substructure. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: remove useless inline attribute for sysfs helper functionAntonio Quartulli
the compiler can optimize functions within the same C file and therefore there is no need to make it explicit. Remove the useless inline attribute for __batadv_store_uint_attr() Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-05-10batman-adv: add detection for complex bridge loopsSimon Wunderlich
There are network setups where the current bridge loop avoidance can't detect bridge loops. The minimal setup affected would consist of two LANs and two separate meshes, connected in a ring like that: A...(mesh1)...B | | (LAN1) (LAN2) | | C...(mesh2)...D Since both the meshes and backbones are separate, the bridge loop avoidance has not enough information to detect and avoid the loop in this case. Even if these scenarios can't be fixed easily, these kind of loops can be detected. This patch implements a periodic check (running every 60 seconds for now) which sends a broadcast frame with a random MAC address on each backbone VLAN. If a broadcast frame with the same MAC address is received shortly after on the mesh, we know that there must be a loop and report that incident as well as throw an uevent to let others handle that problem. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com> [sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-05-10batman-adv: Create batman soft interfaces within correct netns.Andrew Lunn
When creating a soft interface, create it in the same netns as the hard interface. Replace all references to init_net with the correct name space for the interface being manipulated. Suggested-by: Daniel Ehlers <danielehlers@mindeye.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-29batman-adv: add throughput override attribute to hard_ifacesAntonio Quartulli
This attribute is exported to user space to disable the link throughput auto-detection by setting a fixed value. The throughput override value is used when batman-adv is computing the link throughput towards a neighbour. If the value is set to 0 then batman-adv will try to detect the throughput by itself. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29batman-adv: ELP - adding sysfs parameter for elp intervalLinus Luessing
This parameter can be set individually on each interface and allows the configuration of the elp interval for the link quality measurements during runtime. Usually it is desirable to set it to a higher (= slower) value on interfaces which have a more static characteristic (e.g. wired interfaces) or very dense neighbourhoods to reduce overhead. Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> [antonio@open-mesh.com: respin on top of the latest master] Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-29batman-adv: Add hard_iface specific sysfs wrapper macros for UINTLinus Luessing
This allows us to easily add a sysfs parameter for an unsigned int later, which is not for a batman mesh interface (e.g. bat0), but for a common interface instead. It allows reading and writing an atomic_t in hard_iface (instead of bat_priv compared to the mesh variant). Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> [antonio@open-mesh.com: rename functions and move macros] Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_softif_vlan *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23batman-adv: Rename batadv_hardif *_free_ref function to *_putSven Eckelmann
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the *_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection to the *_get functions. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-10batman-adv: Convert batadv_softif_vlan to krefSven Eckelmann
batman-adv uses a self-written reference implementation which is just based on atomic_t. This is less obvious when reading the code than kref and therefore increases the change that the reference counting will be missed. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc of main functionsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc parsing of return descriptionSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02batman-adv: Drop invalid kerneldoc for variable batadv_vlan_attrsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09batman-adv: only call post function if something changedSimon Wunderlich
Currently, the post function is also called on errors or if there were no changes, which is redundant for the functions currently using these facilities. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09batman-adv: purge bridge loop avoidance when its disabledSimon Wunderlich
When bridge loop avoidance is disabled through sysfs, the internal datastructures are not disabled, but only BLA operations are disabled. To be sure that they are removed, purge the data immediately. That is especially useful if a firmwares network state is changed, and the BLA wait periods should restart on the new network. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2015-08-25batman-adv: Replace C99 int types with kernel typeSven Eckelmann
(s|u)(8|16|32|64) are the preferred types in the kernel. The use of the standard C99 types u?int(8|16|32|64)_t are objected by some people and even checkpatch now warns about using them. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-06-07batman-adv: Add required includes to all filesSven Eckelmann
The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used. This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the knowledge about the right order of local includes. Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly. Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on config settings and may not be stable in the future. The order for include blocks are: * primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file) * global linux headers * required local headers * extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h. This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must therefore build together with userspace applications. The header linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have to include main.h to work correctly. Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07batman-adv: split name from variable for uint mesh attributesAntonio Quartulli
Some mesh attributes are behind substructs in the batadv_priv object and for this reason the name cannot be used anymore to refer to them. This patch allows to specify the variable name where the attribute is stored inside batadv_priv instead of using the name Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-01-07batman-adv: checkpatch - Please don't use multiple blank linesAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-07-07batman-adv: Use kasprintfHimangi Saraogi
kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size calculation itself. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: // <smpl> @@ expression a,flag; expression list args; statement S; @@ a = - \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(...,flag) + kasprintf(flag,args) <... when != a if (a == NULL || ...) S ...> - sprintf(a,args); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-18batman-adv: remove semi-colon after macro definitionAntonio Quartulli
Reported by checkpatch with the following warning: "WARNING: macros should not use a trailing semicolon" Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-05-18batman-adv: add blank line between declarations and the rest of the codeAntonio Quartulli
Reported by checkpatch with the following message: "WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations" Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-03-22batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packetsLinus Lüssing
With this patch a multicast packet is not always simply flooded anymore, the behaviour for the following cases is changed to reduce unnecessary overhead: If all nodes within the horizon of a certain node have signalized multicast listener announcement capability then an IPv6 multicast packet with a destination of IPv6 link-local scope (excluding ff02::1) coming from the upstream of this node... * ...is dropped if there is no according multicast listener in the translation table, * ...is forwarded via unicast if there is a single node with interested multicast listeners * ...and otherwise still gets flooded. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014Simon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-08batman-adv: add isolation_mark sysfs attributeAntonio Quartulli
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>
2014-01-08batman-adv: rename gw_deselect() to gw_reselect()Antonio Quartulli
The function batadv_gw_deselect() is actually not deselecting anything. It is just informing the GW code to perform a re-election procedure when possible. The current gateway is not being touched at all and therefore the name of this function is rather misleading. Rename it to batadv_gw_reselect() to batadv_gw_reselect() to make its behaviour easier to grasp. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08batman-adv: deselect current GW on client mode switch offAntonio Quartulli
When switching from gw_mode client to either off or server the current selected gateway has to be deselected. In this way when client mode is enabled again a gateway re-election is forced and a GW_ADD event is consequently sent. The current behaviour instead is to keep the current gateway leading to no GW_ADD event when gw_mode client is selected for a second time Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-08batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimerAntonio Quartulli
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>
2013-10-19batman-adv: make the AP isolation attribute VLAN specificAntonio Quartulli
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>
2013-10-19batman-adv: add sysfs framework for VLANAntonio Quartulli
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>
2013-10-09batman-adv: remove vis functionalitySimon Wunderlich
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>
2013-10-09batman-adv: tvlv - add network coding containerMarek Lindner
Create network coding container to announce network coding capabilities (if enabled). Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09batman-adv: tvlv - add distributed arp table containerMarek Lindner
Create DAT container to announce DAT capabilities (if enabled). Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09batman-adv: tvlv - gateway download/upload bandwidth containerMarek Lindner
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>
2013-08-28batman-adv: send GW_DEL event when the gw client mode is deselectedAntonio Quartulli
Whenever the GW client mode is deselected, a DEL event has to be sent in order to tell userspace that the current gateway has been lost. Send the uevent on state change only if a gateway was currently selected. Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-06-10batman-adv: wait for rtnl in batadv_store_mesh_iface instead of failing if ↵Matthias Schiffer
it is taken The rtnl_lock in batadv_store_mesh_iface has been converted to a rtnl_trylock some time ago to avoid a possible deadlock between rtnl and s_active on removal of the sysfs nodes. The behaviour introduced by that was quite confusing as it could lead to the sysfs store to fail, making batman-adv setup scripts unreliable. As recently the sysfs removal was postponed to a worker not running with the rtnl taken, the deadlock can't occur any more and it is safe to change the trylock back to a lock to make the sysfs store reliable again. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> Reviewed-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>
2013-03-27batman-adv: Don't always delete softif when last slave was removedSven Eckelmann
batman-adv has an unusual way to manage softinterfaces. These will be created automatically when a user writes to the batman-adv/mesh_iface file in sysfs and removed when no slave device exists anymore. This behaviour cannot be changed without breaking compatibility with existing code. Instead other interfaces should be able to slightly reduce this behaviour and provide a more common reaction to a removal of a slave interface. 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>
2013-03-13batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure codeMartin Hundebøll
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>