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alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 395a573855 drivers/ieee802154/at86rf230: replace the code under _init and _exit by macro
The code under _init and _exit functions is similar to the code of
module_spi_driver macro, which is a wrapper to the module_driver macro,
so use it instead.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Devendra Naga <develkernel412222@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 13:23:15 -04:00
Julian Anastasov 9eca2eb994 netlink: add minlen validation for the new signed types
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 13:11:46 -04:00
Julia Lawall e8c75e2c1c drivers/net/ethernet/tundra/tsi108_eth.c: delete double assignment
Delete successive assignments to the same location.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression i;
@@

*i = ...;
 i = ...;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 13:08:37 -04:00
david decotigny 3f0a1b58ae forcedeth: prevent TX timeouts after reboot
This complements patch "net-forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX
pause on down link" which ensures that a lock-up sequence is not sent
to the NIC. Present patch ensures that if a NIC is already locked-up,
the driver will recover from it when initializing the device.

It does the equivalent of the following recovery sequence:
 - write NVREG_TX_PAUSEFRAME_ENABLE_V1 to eth1's register
   NvRegTxPauseFrame
 - write NVREG_XMITCTL_START to eth1's register
   NvRegTransmitterControl
 - write 0 to eth1's register NvRegTransmitterControl
(this is at the heart of the "unbricking" sequence mentioned in patch
 "net-forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link")

Tested:
 - hardware is MCP55 device id 10de:0373 (rev a3), dual-port
 - reboot a kernel without any of patches mentioned
 - freeze the NIC (details on description for commit "net-forcedeth:
   fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link")
 - wait 5mn until ping hangs & TX timeout in dmesg
 - reboot on kernel with present patch
 - host is immediatly operational, no TX timeout

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 13:04:57 -04:00
david decotigny 1ff39eb66b forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link
On some dual-port forcedeth devices such as MCP55 10de:0373 (rev a3),
when autoneg & TX pause are enabled while port is connected but
interface is down, the NIC will eventually freeze (TX timeouts,
network unreachable).

This patch ensures that TX pause is not configured in hardware when
interface is down. The TX pause request will be honored when interface
is later configured.

Tested:
 - hardware is MCP55 device id 10de:0373 (rev a3), dual-port
 - eth0 connected and UP, eth1 connected but DOWN
 - without this patch, following sequence would brick NIC:
      ifconfig eth0 down
      ifconfig eth1 up
      ifconfig eth1 down
      ethtool -A eth1 autoneg off rx on tx off
      ifconfig eth1 up
      ifconfig eth1 down
      ethtool -A eth1 autoneg on rx on tx on
      ifconfig eth1 up
      ifconfig eth1 down
      ifup eth0
      sleep 120  # or longer
      ethtool eth1
   Just in case, sequence to un-brick:
      ifconfig eth0 down
      ethtool -A eth1 autoneg off rx on tx off
      ifconfig eth1 up
      ifconfig eth1 down
      ifup eth0
 - with this patch: no TX timeout after "bricking" sequence above

Details:
 - The following register accesses have been identified as the ones
   causing the NIC to freeze in "bricking" sequence above:
    - write NVREG_TX_PAUSEFRAME_ENABLE_V1 to eth1's register NvRegTxPauseFrame
    - write NVREG_MISC1_PAUSE_TX | NVREG_MISC1_FORCE to eth1's register NvRegMisc1
    - write 0 to eth1's register NvRegTransmitterControl
   This is what this patch avoids.

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 13:04:27 -04:00
david decotigny ba9aa13428 forcedeth: fix buffer overflow
Found by manual code inspection.

Tested: compile, reboot, ethtool -d ethX

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 13:04:27 -04:00
Timur Tabi 6cc2ff8249 netdev/phy: add MDIO bus multiplexer driven by a memory-mapped device
Add support for an MDIO bus multiplexer controlled by a simple memory-mapped
device, like an FPGA.  The device must be memory-mapped and contain only
8-bit registers (which keeps things simple).

Tested on a Freescale P5020DS board which uses the "PIXIS" FPGA attached
to the localbus.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 12:54:48 -04:00
Srinivas Kandagatla e92bdf4bf1 of/mdio-gpio: Simplify the way device tree support is implemented.
This patch cleans up the way device tree support is added in mdio-gpio
driver. I found lot of code duplication which is not necessary.
Also strangely a new platform driver was also introduced for device tree
support. All this forced me to do this cleanup patch.
After this patch, the driver probe checks the of_node pointer to get the
data from device tree.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 12:37:52 -04:00
Srinivas Kandagatla f9dc9ac516 of/mdio: Add dummy functions in of_mdio.h.
This patch adds dummy functions in of_mdio.h, so that driver need not
ifdef there code with CONFIG_OF.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 12:37:52 -04:00
Eric Dumazet ee13040901 netpoll: provide an IP ident in UDP frames
Let's fill IP header ident field with a meaningful value,
it might help some setups.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 12:32:14 -04:00
Gao feng 6549dd43c0 net: dev: fix the incorrect hold of net namespace's lo device
When moving a net device from one net namespace to another
net namespace,dev_change_net_namespace calls NETDEV_DOWN
event,so the original net namespace's dst entries which
beloned to this net device will be put into dst_garbage
list.

then dev_change_net_namespace will set this net device's
net to the new net namespace.

If we unregister this net device's driver, this will trigger
the NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL event, dst_ifdown will be called,
and get this net device's dst entries from dst_garbage list,
put these entries' dev to the new net namespace's lo device.

It's not what we want,actually we need these dst entries hold
the original net namespace's lo device,this incorrect device
holding will trigger emg message like below.
unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1

so we should call NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL event in
dev_change_net_namespace too,in order to make sure dst entries
already in the dst_garbage list, we need rcu_barrier before we
call NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL event.

With help form Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-30 12:21:16 -04:00
David S. Miller e6acb38480 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
This is an initial merge in of Eric Biederman's work to start adding
user namespace support to the networking.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 18:54:37 -04:00
David S. Miller 255e87657a Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc-next
Ben Hutchings says:

====================
1. Change the TX path to stop queues earlier and avoid returning
NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
2. Remove some inefficiencies in soft-TSO.
3. Fix various bugs involving device state transitions and/or reset
scheduling by error handlers.
4. Take advantage of my previous change to operstate initialisation.
5. Miscellaneous cleanup.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 16:35:43 -04:00
David S. Miller 85c21049fc Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next
John W. Linville says:

====================
This is a batch of updates intended for 3.7.  The bulk of it is
mac80211 changes, including some mesh work from Thomas Pederson and
some multi-channel work from Johannes.  A variety of driver updates
and other bits are scattered in there as well.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 15:18:07 -04:00
Ben Hutchings 8f8b3d5189 sfc: Fix the initial device operstate
Following commit 8f4cccb ('net: Set device operstate at registration
time') it is now correct and preferable to set the carrier off before
registering a device.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:24 +01:00
Ben Hutchings adeb15aa1c sfc: Assign efx and efx->type as early as possible in efx_pci_probe()
We also stop clearing *efx in efx_init_struct().  This is safe because
alloc_etherdev_mq() already clears it for us.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:23 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 3f65ea5b2a sfc: Remove bogus comment about MTU change and RX buffer overrun
RX DMA is limited by the length specified in each descriptor and not
by the MAC.  Over-length frames may get into the RX FIFO regardless of
the MAC settings, due to a hardware bug, but they will be truncated by
the packet DMA engine and reported as such in the completion event.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:23 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 7bde852afc sfc: Remove overly paranoid locking assertions from netdev operations
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:22 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 7153f623ea sfc: Fix reset vs probe/remove/PM races involving efx_nic::state
We try to defer resets while the device is not READY, but we're not
doing this quite correctly.  In particular, changes to efx_nic::state
are documented as serialised by the RTNL lock, but they aren't.

1. We check whether a reset was requested during probe (suggesting
broken hardware) before we allow requested resets to be scheduled.
This leaves a window where a requested reset would be deferred
indefinitely.

2. Although we cancel the reset work item during device removal,
there are still later operations that can cause it to be scheduled
again.  We need to check the state before scheduling it.

3. Since the state can change between scheduling and running of
the work item, we still need to check it there, and we need to
do so *after* acquiring the RTNL lock which serialises state
changes.

4. We must cancel the reset work item during device removal, if the
state could ever have been READY.  This wasn't done in some of the
failure paths from efx_pci_probe().  Move the cancellation to
efx_pci_remove_main().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:22 +01:00
Ben Hutchings b812f8b7a9 sfc: Improve log messages in case we abort probe due to a pending reset
The current informational message doesn't properly explain what
happens, and could also appear if we defer a reset during
suspend/resume.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:21 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 8b7325b4e2 sfc: Never try to stop and start a NIC that is disabled
efx_change_mtu() and efx_realloc_channels() each stop and start much
of the NIC, even if it has been disabled.  Since efx_start_all() is a
no-op when the NIC is disabled, this is probably harmless in the case
of efx_change_mtu(), but efx_realloc_channels() also reenables
interrupts which could be a bad thing to do.

Change efx_start_all() and efx_start_interrupts() to assert that the
NIC is not disabled, but make efx_stop_interrupts() do nothing if the
NIC is disabled (since it is already stopped), consistent with
efx_stop_all().

Update comments for efx_start_all() and efx_stop_all() to describe
their purpose and preconditions more accurately.

Add a common function to check and log if the NIC is disabled, and use
it in efx_net_open(), efx_change_mtu() and efx_realloc_channels().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:20 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 5642ceef46 sfc: Hold RTNL lock (only) when calling efx_stop_interrupts()
Interrupt state should be consistently guarded by the RTNL lock once
the net device is registered.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:20 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 6032fb56c5 sfc: Keep disabled NICs quiescent during suspend/resume
Currently we ignore and clear the disabled state.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:19 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 61da026d86 sfc: Hold the RTNL lock for more of the suspend/resume cycle
I don't think these PM functions can race with userland net device
operations, but it's much easier to reason about locking if state is
consistently guarded by the same lock.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:19 +01:00
Ben Hutchings f16aeea0e6 sfc: Change state names to be clearer, and comment them
STATE_INIT and STATE_FINI are equivalent and represent incompletely
initialised states; combine them as STATE_UNINIT.

Rename STATE_RUNNING to STATE_READY, to avoid confusion with
netif_running() and IFF_RUNNING.

The comments do not quite match current usage, but this will be
corrected in subsequent fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:18 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 9714284f83 sfc: Stash header offsets for TSO in struct tso_state
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:17 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 53cb13c680 sfc: Replace tso_state::full_packet_space with ip_base_len
We only use tso_state::full_packet_space to calculate the IPv4 tot_len
or IPv6 payload_len, not to set tso_state::packet_space.  Replace it
with an ip_base_len field holding the value of tot_len or payload_len
before including the TCP payload, which is much more useful when
constructing the new headers.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:17 +01:00
Ben Hutchings f7251a9ce9 sfc: Simplify TSO header buffer allocation
TSO header buffers contain a control structure immediately followed by
the packet headers, and are kept on a free list when not in use.  This
complicates buffer management and tends to result in cache read misses
when we recycle such buffers (particularly if DMA-coherent memory
requires caches to be disabled).

Replace the free list with a simple mapping by descriptor index.  We
know that there is always a payload descriptor between any two
descriptors with TSO header buffers, so we can allocate only one
such buffer for each two descriptors.

While we're at it, use a standard error code for allocation failure,
not -1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 20:10:11 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 14bf718fb9 sfc: Stop TX queues before they fill up
We now have a definite upper bound on the number of descriptors per
skb; use that to stop the queue when the next packet might not fit.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 19:00:27 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 7668ff9c2a sfc: Refactor struct efx_tx_buffer to use a flags field
Add a flags field to struct efx_tx_buffer, replacing the
continuation and map_single booleans.

Since a single descriptor cannot be both a TSO header and the last
descriptor for an skb, unionise efx_tx_buffer::{skb,tsoh} and add
flags for validity of these fields.

Clear all flags in free buffers (whereas previously the continuation
flag would be set).

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2012-08-24 19:00:26 +01:00
Jiri Pirko 2c33bb37cb team: do not allow to add VLAN challenged port when vlan is used
Reported-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:46:40 -04:00
Jiri Pirko 9b361c13ce vlan: add helper which can be called to see if device is used by vlan
also, remove unused vlan_info definition from header

CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:46:39 -04:00
Jiri Pirko 0c7517e9fa team: don't print warn message on -ESRCH during event send
When no one is listening on NL socket, -ESRCH is returned and warning
message is printed. This message is confusing people and in fact has no
meaning. So do not print it in this case.

Reported-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:46:39 -04:00
Wei Yongjun 1f7c9ae7a0 w5300: using eth_hw_addr_random() for random MAC and set device flag
Using eth_hw_addr_random() to generate a random Ethernet address
(MAC) to be used by a net device and set addr_assign_type.
Not need to duplicating its implementation.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:30:27 -04:00
Wei Yongjun d68bb7e1a6 w5100: using eth_hw_addr_random() for random MAC and set device flag
Using eth_hw_addr_random() to generate a random Ethernet address
(MAC) to be used by a net device and set addr_assign_type.
Not need to duplicating its implementation.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:30:27 -04:00
Wei Yongjun 9213bb8325 wimax/i2400m: use is_zero_ether_addr() instead of memcmp()
Using is_zero_ether_addr() instead of directly use
memcmp() to determine if the ethernet address is all
zeros.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 13:30:26 -04:00
Ben Hutchings 8f4cccbbd9 net: Set device operstate at registration time
The operstate of a device is initially IF_OPER_UNKNOWN and is updated
asynchronously by linkwatch after each change of carrier state
reported by the driver.  The default carrier state of a net device is
on, and this will never be changed on drivers that do not support
carrier detection, thus the operstate remains IF_OPER_UNKNOWN.

For devices that do support carrier detection, the driver must set the
carrier state to off initially, then poll the hardware state when the
device is opened.  However, we must not activate linkwatch for a
unregistered device, and commit b473001 ('net: Do not fire linkwatch
events until the device is registered.') ensured that we don't.  But
this means that the operstate for many devices that support carrier
detection remains IF_OPER_UNKNOWN when it should be IF_OPER_DOWN.

The same issue exists with the dormant state.

The proper initialisation sequence, avoiding a race with opening of
the device, is:

        rtnl_lock();
        rc = register_netdevice(dev);
        if (rc)
                goto out_unlock;
        netif_carrier_off(dev); /* or netif_dormant_on(dev) */
        rtnl_unlock();

but it seems silly that this should have to be repeated in so many
drivers.  Further, the operstate seen immediately after opening the
device may still be IF_OPER_UNKNOWN due to the asynchronous nature of
linkwatch.

Commit 22604c8 ('net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28') attempted
to fix this by setting the operstate synchronously, but it was
reverted as it could lead to deadlock.

This initialises the operstate synchronously at registration time
only.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 12:46:13 -04:00
Timur Tabi 9f35a7342c net/fsl: introduce Freescale 10G MDIO driver
Similar to fsl_pq_mdio.c, this driver is for the 10G MDIO controller on
Freescale Frame Manager Ethernet controllers.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 12:42:42 -04:00
Neil Horman 3afa6d00fb cls_cgroup: Allow classifier cgroups to have their classid reset to 0
The network classifier cgroup initalizes each cgroups instance classid value to
0.  However, the sock_update_classid function only updates classid's in sockets
if the tasks cgroup classid is not zero, and if it differs from the current
classid.  The later check is to prevent cache line dirtying, but the former is
detrimental, as it prevents resetting a classid for a cgroup to 0.  While this
is not a common action, it has administrative usefulness (if the admin wants to
disable classification of a certain group temporarily for instance).

Easy fix, just remove the zero check.  Tested successfully by myself

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 12:41:17 -04:00
John W. Linville f20b6213f1 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-08-24 12:25:30 -04:00
David S. Miller e6e94e392f Merge tag 'batman-adv-for-davem' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge
Antonio Quartulli says:

====================
Included changes:
- a set of codestyle rearrangements/fixes
- new feature to early detect new joining (mesh-unaware) clients
- a minor fix for the gw-feature
- substitution of shift operations with the BIT() macro
- reorganization of the main batman-adv structure (struct batadv_priv)
- some more (very) minor cleanups and fixes
===================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-24 11:30:50 -04:00
Rami Rosen f63c45e0e6 packet: fix broken build.
This patch fixes a broken build due to a missing header:
...
  CC      net/ipv4/proc.o
In file included from include/net/net_namespace.h:15,
                 from net/ipv4/proc.c:35:
include/net/netns/packet.h:11: error: field 'sklist_lock' has incomplete type
...

The lock of netns_packet has been replaced by a recent patch to be a mutex instead of a spinlock,
but we need to replace the header file to be linux/mutex.h instead of linux/spinlock.h as well.

See commit 0fa7fa98dbcc2789409ed24e885485e645803d7f:
packet: Protect packet sk list with mutex (v2) patch,

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <rosenr@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-23 09:29:45 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 748e2d9396 net: reinstate rtnl in call_netdevice_notifiers()
Eric Biederman pointed out that not holding RTNL while calling
call_netdevice_notifiers() was racy.

This patch is a direct transcription his feedback
against commit 0115e8e30d (net: remove delay at device dismantle)

Thanks Eric !

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-23 09:24:42 -07:00
John W. Linville a4881cc45a Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2012-08-23 09:49:42 -04:00
Sven Eckelmann fa4f0afcf4 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:23 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 371351731e batman-adv: change interface_rx to get orig node
In order to understand  where a broadcast packet is coming from and use
this information to detect not yet announced clients, this patch modifies the
interface_rx() function by passing a new argument: the orig node
corresponding to the node that originated the received packet (if known).
This new argument if not NULL for broadcast packets only (other packets does not
have source field).

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:22 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 30cfd02b60 batman-adv: detect not yet announced clients
With the current TT mechanism a new client joining the network is not
immediately able to communicate with other hosts because its MAC address has not
been announced yet. This situation holds until the first OGM containing its
joining event will be spread over the mesh network.

This behaviour can be acceptable in networks where the originator interval is a
small value (e.g. 1sec) but if that value is set to an higher time (e.g. 5secs)
the client could suffer from several malfunctions like DHCP client timeouts,
etc.

This patch adds an early detection mechanism that makes nodes in the network
able to recognise "not yet announced clients" by means of the broadcast packets
they emitted on connection (e.g. ARP or DHCP request). The added client will
then be confirmed upon receiving the OGM claiming it or purged if such OGM
is not received within a fixed amount of time.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:22 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann c67893d17a batman-adv: Reduce accumulated length of simple statements
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:21 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann bbb1f90efb batman-adv: Don't break statements after assignment operator
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:20 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 8de47de575 batman-adv: Use BIT(x) macro to calculate bit positions
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:19 +02:00