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2011-02-08batman-adv: Linearize fragment packets before mergeSven Eckelmann
We access the data inside the skbs of two fragments directly using memmove during the merge. The data of the skb could span over multiple skb pages. An direct access without knowledge about the pages would lead to an invalid memory access. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> [lindner_marek@yahoo.de: Move return from function to the end] Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-01-30batman-adv: Make vis info stack traversal threadsafeSven Eckelmann
The batman-adv vis server has to a stack which stores all information about packets which should be send later. This stack is protected with a spinlock that is used to prevent concurrent write access to it. The send_vis_packets function has to take all elements from the stack and send them to other hosts over the primary interface. The send will be initiated without the lock which protects the stack. The implementation using list_for_each_entry_safe has the problem that it stores the next element as "safe ptr" to allow the deletion of the current element in the list. The list may be modified during the unlock/lock pair in the loop body which may make the safe pointer not pointing to correct next element. It is safer to remove and use the first element from the stack until no elements are available. This does not need reduntant information which would have to be validated each time the lock was removed. Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-30batman-adv: Remove vis info element in free_infoSven Eckelmann
The free_info function will be called when no reference to the info object exists anymore. It must be ensured that the allocated memory gets freed and not only the elements which are managed by the info object. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-30batman-adv: Remove vis info on hashing errorsSven Eckelmann
A newly created vis info object must be removed when it couldn't be added to the hash. The old_info which has to be replaced was already removed and isn't related to the hash anymore. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-25batman-adv: Fix kernel panic when fetching vis data on a vis serverLinus Lüssing
The hash_iterate removal introduced a bug leading to a kernel panic when fetching the vis data on a vis server. That commit forgot to rename one variable name, which this commit fixes now. Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-16batman-adv: Use "__attribute__" shortcut macrosSven Eckelmann
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: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-13batman-adv: Even Batman should not dereference NULL pointersJesper Juhl
There's a problem in net/batman-adv/unicast.c::frag_send_skb(). dev_alloc_skb() allocates memory and may fail, thus returning NULL. If this happens we'll pass a NULL pointer on to skb_split() which in turn hands it to skb_split_inside_header() from where it gets passed to skb_put() that lets skb_tail_pointer() play with it and that function dereferences it. And thus the bat dies. While I was at it I also moved the call to dev_alloc_skb() above the assignment to 'unicast_packet' since there's no reason to do that assignment if the memory allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2010-12-20batman-adv: Return hna count on local buffer fillSven Eckelmann
hna_local_fill_buffer must return the number of added hna entries and not the last checked hash bucket. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann
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>