Commit Graph

11 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Sven Eckelmann
c3caf5196c batman-adv: Remove unnecessary hardif_list_lock
hardif_list_lock is unneccessary because we already ensure that no
multiple admin operations can take place through rtnl_lock.
hardif_list_lock only adds additional overhead and complexity.

Critical functions now check whether they are called with rtnl_lock
using ASSERT_RTNL.

It indirectly fixes the problem that orig_hash_del_if() expects that
only one interface is deleted from hardif_list at a time, but
hardif_remove_interfaces() removes all at once and then calls
orig_hash_del_if().

Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08 16:10:41 +02:00
Marek Lindner
32ae9b221e batman-adv: Make bat_priv->primary_if an rcu protected pointer
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>
2011-05-01 22:49:03 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
e44d8fe2b5 batman-adv: Disallow regular interface as mesh device
When trying to associate a net_device with another net_device which
already exists, batman-adv assumes that this interface is a fully
initialized batman mesh interface without checking it. The behaviour
when accessing data behind netdev_priv of a random net_device is
undefined and potentially dangerous.

Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:09 +01:00
Marek Lindner
e6c10f433a batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_iface
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:06 +01:00
Marek Lindner
4389e47af8 batman-adv: rename global if_list to hardif_list
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>
2011-03-05 12:52:05 +01:00
Marek Lindner
39901e7162 batman-adv: separate ethernet comparing calls from hash functions
Note: The function compare_ether_addr() provided by the Linux kernel
requires aligned memory.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:50:14 +01:00
Marek Lindner
ed75ccbe26 batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for batman_if
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same
rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the
refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the
refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount
operations have to be atomic.

Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:50:07 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
a4c135c561 batman-adv: protect bonding with rcu locks
bonding / alternating candidates need to be secured by rcu locks
as well. This patch therefore converts the bonding list
from a plain pointer list to a rcu securable lists and references
the bonding candidates.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:50:01 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
64afe35398 batman-adv: Update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:12 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
fb86d7648f batman-adv: Remove declaration of batman_skb_recv
batman_skb_recv can be defined in hard-interface.c as static because it is
never used outside of that file.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:11 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
c6c8fea297 net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol
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>
2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00