When multiple backbone gateways relay the same broadcast from the
backbone into the mesh, other nodes in the mesh may receive this
broadcast multiple times. To avoid this, the crc checksums of
received broadcasts are recorded and new broadcast packets with
the same content may be dropped if received by another gateway.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

This second version of the bridge loop avoidance for batman-adv
avoids loops between the mesh and a backbone (usually a LAN).

By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet
segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged
into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop
involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment:

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

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

With this patch, batman recognizes backbone gateways, nodes which are
part of the mesh and backbone/LAN at the same time. Each backbone
gateway "claims" clients from within the mesh to handle them
exclusively. By restricting that only responsible backbone gateways
may handle their claimed clients traffic, loops are effectively
avoided.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

The functionality is to be replaced by an improved implementation,
so first clean up.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

bitarray.c consists mostly of functionality that is already available as part
of the standard kernel API. batman-adv could use architecture optimized code
and reduce the binary size by switching to the standard functions.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

To increase readability the has_timed_out() functions has been introduced.
This patch converts existing time_after() calls to use this wrapper
function (if applicable).
This patch also converts all timeouts to miliseconds to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Both translation tables and network coding use timeouts to do house
keeping, so we might as well share the function used to compare a
timestamp+timeout with current time.

For readability and simplicity, the function is renamed to
has_timed_out() and uses time_is_before_jiffies() instead of
time_after().
Signed-off-by: NMartin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Clients connected through a 802.11 device are now marked with the
TT_CLIENT_WIFI flag. This flag is also advertised with the tt
announcement.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Several typos have been corrected and some sentences have been rephrased
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

The version number of modules build outside of the tree can get revision
numbers added. This is useful to give hints about the revision of a
distribution package and the used patchset. The prepended source number or
branch name doesn't add any additional information which would help to identify
problems and can therefore be omitted.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

If a client issues a DHCPREQUEST for renewal, the packet is dropped
if the old destination (the old gateway for the client) TQ is smaller
than the current best gateway TQ less GW_THRESHOLD
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Using throw_uevent() is now possible to trigger uevent signal that can
be recognised in userspace. Uevents will be triggered through the
/devices/virtual/net/{MESH_IFACE} kobject.

A triggered uevent has three properties:
- type: the event class. Who generates the event (only 'gw' is currently
  defined). Corresponds to the BATTYPE uevent variable.
- action: the associated action with the event ('add'/'change'/'del' are
  currently defined). Corresponds to the BATACTION uevent variable.
- data: any useful data for the userspace. Corresponds to the BATDATA
  uevent variable.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

The definition NO_FLAGS was introduced to make the code more
readable and shall be used to initialize flag fields.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

CodingStyle "Chapter 12: Macros, Enums and RTL" recommends to use enums
for several related constants. Internal states can be used without
defining the actual value, but all values which are visible to the
outside must be defined as before. Normal values are assigned as usual
and flags are defined by shifts of a bit.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

seq_before and seq_after depend on the fact that both sequence numbers
have the same type and thus the same bitwidth. We can ensure that by
compile time checking using a compare between the pointer to the
temporary buffers which were created using the typeof of both
parameters. For example gcc would create a warning like
"warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast".
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

smallest_signed_int(), seq_before() and seq_after() are very useful
functions that help to handle comparisons between sequence numbers.
However they were only defined in vis.c. With this patch every
batman-adv function will be able to use them.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

It is slightly irritating that comments after a long line span over
multiple lines without any code. It is easier to put them before the
actual code and reduce the number of lines which the eye has to read.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed
to the TranslationTable style
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Note: The function compare_ether_addr() provided by the Linux kernel
requires aligned memory.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Linux 2.6.21 defines different macros for __attribute__ which are also
used inside batman-adv. The next version of checkpatch.pl warns about
the usage of __attribute__((packed))).

Linux 2.6.33 defines an extra macro __always_unused which is used to
assist source code analyzers and can be used to removed the last
existing __attribute__ inside the source code.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

linux/etherdevice.h already provides functions to classify different
ethernet addresses. These inlineable functions should be used instead of
custom functions.

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

is_broadcast_ether_addr(x) => is_multicast_ether_addr(x)

or when looking more at the implementation:

(FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF == x) => [(01:00:00:00:00:00 & x) != 00:00:00:00:00:00]
Reported-by: NTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Function pointers cannot be inlined by a compiler and thus always has
the overhead of an call. hashdata_choose_cb's are one of the most often
called function pointers and its overhead must kept relative low.

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

This not generate any performance gain right now. The called functions
must also be able to be inlined by the calling functions to enable
inlining of the function pointer.
Reported-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Function pointers cannot be inlined by a compiler and thus always has
the overhead of an call. hashdata_compare_cb's are one of the most often
called function pointers and its overhead must kept relative low.

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

This not generate any performance gain right now. The called functions
must also be able to be inlined by the calling functions to enable
inlining of the function pointer.
Reported-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

When having a mixed topology of both very mobile and rather static
nodes, you are usually best advised to set the originator interval on
all nodes to a level best suited for the most mobile node.

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

Exposing the hop_penalty is especially useful for the stated scenario: A
static node can keep the default originator interval, a mobile node can
select a quicker one resulting in faster route updates towards this
mobile node. Additionally, such a mobile node could select a higher hop
penalty (or even set it to 255 to disable acting as a router for other
nodes) to make it less desirable, letting other nodes avoid selecting
this mobile node as a router.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet
segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged
into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop
involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment:

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

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

This patch adds the functionality to detect other batman-adv nodes
connected to the LAN and select a 'gateway' to talk to the
non-batman-adv devices on this LAN. All traffic from and to the mesh
will be handled by this gateway to avoid the loop. OGMs received via
the soft-interface are interpreted as 'port announcements' to locate
potential batman-adv nodes. The patch can also deal with vlans on
top of batX and offers a list of LAN neighbors via debugfs.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>