14 Apr, 2017

2 commits

  • This is an add-on to the previous patch that passes the extended ACK
    structure where it's already available by existing genl_info or extack
    function arguments.

    This was done with this spatch (with some manual adjustment of
    indentation):

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D, E;
    identifier fn, info;
    @@
    fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) {
    ...
    -nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
    +nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, info->extack)
    ...
    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D, E;
    identifier fn, info;
    @@
    fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) {
    extack)
    ...>
    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D, E;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {

    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D, E;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {

    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D, E;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
    ...
    -nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
    +nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
    ...
    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {

    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {

    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C, D;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {

    }

    @@
    expression A, B, C;
    identifier fn, extack;
    @@
    fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {

    }

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Johannes Berg
     
  • Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
    netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
    (except for some in the core.)

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Johannes Berg
     

21 Jan, 2017

1 commit

  • As a preparation for the 'replicast' functionality we are going to
    introduce in the next commits, we need the broadcast base structure to
    store whether bearer broadcast is available at all from the currently
    used bearer or bearers.

    We do this by adding a new function tipc_bearer_bcast_support() to
    the bearer layer, and letting the bearer selection function in
    bcast.c use this to give a new boolean field, 'bcast_support' the
    appropriate value.

    Reviewed-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan
    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

03 Dec, 2016

1 commit

  • Qian Zhang (张谦) reported a potential socket buffer overflow in
    tipc_msg_build() which is also known as CVE-2016-8632: due to
    insufficient checks, a buffer overflow can occur if MTU is too short for
    even tipc headers. As anyone can set device MTU in a user/net namespace,
    this issue can be abused by a regular user.

    As agreed in the discussion on Ben Hutchings' original patch, we should
    check the MTU at the moment a bearer is attached rather than for each
    processed packet. We also need to repeat the check when bearer MTU is
    adjusted to new device MTU. UDP case also needs a check to avoid
    overflow when calculating bearer MTU.

    Fixes: b97bf3fd8f6a ("[TIPC] Initial merge")
    Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek
    Reported-by: Qian Zhang (张谦)
    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Michal Kubeček
     

27 Aug, 2016

2 commits

  • Add UDP bearer options to netlink bearer get message. This is used by
    the tipc user space tool to display UDP options.

    The UDP bearer information is passed using either a sockaddr_in or
    sockaddr_in6 structs. This means the user space receiver should
    intermediately store the retrieved data in a large enough struct
    (sockaddr_strage) before casting to the proper IP version type.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     
  • This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate
    multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers.

    The purpose of replicast is mainly to be able to use TIPC in cloud
    environments where IP multicast is disabled. Using replicas to unicast
    multicast messages is costly as we have to copy each skb and send the
    copies individually.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     

24 Aug, 2016

1 commit


19 Aug, 2016

1 commit

  • In commit 5b7066c3dd24 ("tipc: stricter filtering of packets in bearer
    layer") we introduced a method of filtering out messages while a bearer
    is being reset, to avoid that links may be re-created and come back in
    working state while we are still in the process of shutting them down.

    This solution works well, but is limited to only work with L2 media, which
    is insufficient with the increasing use of UDP as carrier media.

    We now replace this solution with a more generic one, by introducing a
    new flag "up" in the generic struct tipc_bearer. This field will be set
    and reset at the same locations as with the previous solution, while
    the packet filtering is moved to the generic code for the sending side.
    On the receiving side, the filtering is still done in media specific
    code, but now including the UDP bearer.

    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

27 Jul, 2016

2 commits


24 Jul, 2016

1 commit


12 Jul, 2016

1 commit

  • In test situations with many nodes and a heavily stressed system we have
    observed that the transmission broadcast link may fail due to an
    excessive number of retransmissions of the same packet. In such
    situations we need to reset all unicast links to all peers, in order to
    reset and re-synchronize the broadcast link.

    In this commit, we add a new function tipc_bearer_reset_all() to be used
    in such situations. The function scans across all bearers and resets all
    their pertaining links.

    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

30 Jun, 2016

1 commit


16 Jun, 2016

2 commits

  • When run tipcTS&tipcTC test suite, the following complaint appears:

    [ 56.926168] ===============================
    [ 56.926169] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
    [ 56.926171] 4.7.0-rc1+ #160 Not tainted
    [ 56.926173] -------------------------------
    [ 56.926174] net/tipc/bearer.c:408 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
    [ 56.926175]
    [ 56.926175] other info that might help us debug this:
    [ 56.926175]
    [ 56.926177]
    [ 56.926177] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
    [ 56.926179] 3 locks held by swapper/4/0:
    [ 56.926180] #0: (((&req->timer))){+.-...}, at: [] call_timer_fn+0x5/0x340
    [ 56.926203] #1: (&(&req->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [] disc_timeout+0x1b/0xd0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926212] #2: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [] tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0xb0/0x2e0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926218]
    [ 56.926218] stack backtrace:
    [ 56.926221] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc1+ #160
    [ 56.926222] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
    [ 56.926224] 0000000000000000 ffff880016803d28 ffffffff813c4423 ffff8800154252c0
    [ 56.926227] 0000000000000001 ffff880016803d58 ffffffff810b7512 ffff8800124d8120
    [ 56.926230] ffff880013f8a160 ffff8800132b5ccc ffff8800124d8120 ffff880016803d88
    [ 56.926234] Call Trace:
    [ 56.926235] [] dump_stack+0x67/0x94
    [ 56.926250] [] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe2/0x120
    [ 56.926256] [] tipc_l2_send_msg+0x131/0x1c0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926261] [] tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0x14c/0x2e0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926266] [] ? tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0xb0/0x2e0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926273] [] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926278] [] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926283] [] disc_timeout+0x56/0xd0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926288] [] call_timer_fn+0xb8/0x340
    [ 56.926291] [] ? call_timer_fn+0x5/0x340
    [ 56.926296] [] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
    [ 56.926300] [] run_timer_softirq+0x23a/0x390
    [ 56.926306] [] ? clockevents_program_event+0x7f/0x130
    [ 56.926316] [] __do_softirq+0xc3/0x4a2
    [ 56.926323] [] irq_exit+0x8a/0xb0
    [ 56.926327] [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0x60
    [ 56.926331] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x89/0x90
    [ 56.926333] [] ? default_idle+0x2a/0x1a0
    [ 56.926340] [] ? default_idle+0x28/0x1a0
    [ 56.926342] [] arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20
    [ 56.926345] [] default_idle_call+0x2f/0x50
    [ 56.926347] [] cpu_startup_entry+0x215/0x3e0
    [ 56.926353] [] start_secondary+0xf9/0x100

    The warning appears as rtnl_dereference() is wrongly used in
    tipc_l2_send_msg() under RCU read lock protection. Instead the proper
    usage should be that rcu_dereference_rtnl() is called here.

    Fixes: 5b7066c3dd24 ("tipc: stricter filtering of packets in bearer layer")
    Acked-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Ying Xue
     
  • TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link
    connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide
    a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because
    of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring in an N-node
    cluster increases with a factor N on each node, while the overall
    monitoring traffic through the network infrastructure increases at
    a ~(N * (N - 1)) rate. Experience has shown that such clusters don't
    scale well beyond ~100 nodes unless we significantly increase failure
    discovery tolerance.

    This commit introduces a framework and an algorithm that drastically
    reduces this background load, while basically maintaining the original
    failure detection times across the whole cluster. Using this algorithm,
    background load will now grow at a rate of ~(2 * sqrt(N)) per node, and
    at ~(2 * N * sqrt(N)) in traffic overhead. As an example, each node will
    now have to actively monitor 38 neighbors in a 400-node cluster, instead
    of as before 399.

    This "Overlapping Ring Supervision Algorithm" is completely distributed
    and employs no centralized or coordinated state. It goes as follows:

    - Each node makes up a linearly ascending, circular list of all its N
    known neighbors, based on their TIPC node identity. This algorithm
    must be the same on all nodes.

    - The node then selects the next M = sqrt(N) - 1 nodes downstream from
    itself in the list, and chooses to actively monitor those. This is
    called its "local monitoring domain".

    - It creates a domain record describing the monitoring domain, and
    piggy-backs this in the data area of all neighbor monitoring messages
    (LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE) leaving that node. This means that all nodes in
    the cluster eventually (default within 400 ms) will learn about
    its monitoring domain.

    - Whenever a node discovers a change in its local domain, e.g., a node
    has been added or has gone down, it creates and sends out a new
    version of its node record to inform all neighbors about the change.

    - A node receiving a domain record from anybody outside its local domain
    matches this against its own list (which may not look the same), and
    chooses to not actively monitor those members of the received domain
    record that are also present in its own list. Instead, it relies on
    indications from the direct monitoring nodes if an indirectly
    monitored node has gone up or down. If a node is indicated lost, the
    receiving node temporarily activates its own direct monitoring towards
    that node in order to confirm, or not, that it is actually gone.

    - Since each node is actively monitoring sqrt(N) downstream neighbors,
    each node is also actively monitored by the same number of upstream
    neighbors. This means that all non-direct monitoring nodes normally
    will receive sqrt(N) indications that a node is gone.

    - A major drawback with ring monitoring is how it handles failures that
    cause massive network partitionings. If both a lost node and all its
    direct monitoring neighbors are inside the lost partition, the nodes in
    the remaining partition will never receive indications about the loss.
    To overcome this, each node also chooses to actively monitor some
    nodes outside its local domain. Those nodes are called remote domain
    "heads", and are selected in such a way that no node in the cluster
    will be more than two direct monitoring hops away. Because of this,
    each node, apart from monitoring the member of its local domain, will
    also typically monitor sqrt(N) remote head nodes.

    - As an optimization, local list status, domain status and domain
    records are marked with a generation number. This saves senders from
    unnecessarily conveying unaltered domain records, and receivers from
    performing unneeded re-adaptations of their node monitoring list, such
    as re-assigning domain heads.

    - As a measure of caution we have added the possibility to disable the
    new algorithm through configuration. We do this by keeping a threshold
    value for the cluster size; a cluster that grows beyond this value
    will switch from full-mesh to ring monitoring, and vice versa when
    it shrinks below the value. This means that if the threshold is set to
    a value larger than any anticipated cluster size (default size is 32)
    the new algorithm is effectively disabled. A patch set for altering the
    threshold value and for listing the table contents will follow shortly.

    - This change is fully backwards compatible.

    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

08 Apr, 2016

2 commits

  • Resetting a bearer/interface, with the consequence of resetting all its
    pertaining links, is not an atomic action. This becomes particularly
    evident in very large clusters, where a lot of traffic may happen on the
    remaining links while we are busy shutting them down. In extreme cases,
    we may even see links being re-created and re-established before we are
    finished with the job.

    To solve this, we now introduce a solution where we temporarily detach
    the bearer from the interface when the bearer is reset. This inhibits
    all packet reception, while sending still is possible. For the latter,
    we use the fact that the device's user pointer now is zero to filter out
    which packets can be sent during this situation; i.e., outgoing RESET
    messages only. This filtering serves to speed up the neighbors'
    detection of the loss event, and saves us from unnecessary probing.

    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     
  • When enabling a bearer we create a 'neigbor discoverer' instance by
    calling the function tipc_disc_create() before the bearer is actually
    registered in the list of enabled bearers. Because of this, the very
    first discovery broadcast message, created by the mentioned function,
    is lost, since it cannot find any valid bearer to use. Furthermore,
    the used send function, tipc_bearer_xmit_skb() does not free the given
    buffer when it cannot find a bearer, resulting in the leak of exactly
    one send buffer each time a bearer is enabled.

    This commit fixes this problem by introducing two changes:

    1) Instead of attemting to send the discovery message directly, we let
    tipc_disc_create() return the discovery buffer to the calling
    function, tipc_enable_bearer(), so that the latter can send it
    when the enabling sequence is finished.

    2) In tipc_bearer_xmit_skb(), as well as in the two other transmit
    functions at the bearer layer, we now free the indicated buffer or
    buffer chain when a valid bearer cannot be found.

    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

08 Mar, 2016

1 commit


21 Nov, 2015

1 commit

  • The number of variables with Hungarian notation (l_ptr, n_ptr etc.)
    has been significantly reduced over the last couple of years.

    We now root out the last traces of this practice.
    There are no functional changes in this commit.

    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

24 Oct, 2015

5 commits

  • After the previous changes in this series, we can now remove some
    unused code and structures, both in the broadcast, link aggregation
    and link code.

    There are no functional changes in this commit.

    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     
  • Since all packet transmitters (link, bcast, discovery) are now sending
    consumable buffer clones to the bearer layer, we can remove the
    redundant buffer cloning that is perfomed in the lower level functions
    tipc_l2_send_msg() and tipc_udp_send_msg().

    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     
  • The neighbor discovery function currently uses the function
    tipc_bearer_send() for transmitting packets, assuming that the
    sent buffers are not consumed by the called function.

    We want to change this, in order to avoid unnecessary buffer cloning
    elswhere in the code.

    This commit introduces a new function tipc_bearer_skb() which consumes
    the sent buffers, and let the discoverer functions use this new call
    instead. The discoverer does now itself perform the cloning when
    that is necessary.

    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     
  • Until now, we have only been supporting a fix MTU size of 1500 bytes
    for all broadcast media, irrespective of their actual capability.

    We now make the broadcast MTU adaptable to the carrying media, i.e.,
    we use the smallest MTU supported by any of the interfaces attached
    to TIPC.

    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     
  • Until now, we have been keeping track of the exact set of broadcast
    destinations though the help structure tipc_node_map. This leads us to
    have to maintain a whole infrastructure for supporting this, including
    a pseudo-bearer and a number of functions to manipulate both the bearers
    and the node map correctly. Apart from the complexity, this approach is
    also limiting, as struct tipc_node_map only can support cluster local
    broadcast if we want to avoid it becoming excessively large. We want to
    eliminate this limitation, in order to enable introduction of scoped
    multicast in the future.

    A closer analysis reveals that it is unnecessary maintaining this "full
    set" overview; it is sufficient to keep a counter per bearer, indicating
    how many nodes can be reached via this bearer at the moment. The protocol
    is now robust enough to handle transitional discrepancies between the
    nominal number of reachable destinations, as expected by the broadcast
    protocol itself, and the number which is actually reachable at the
    moment. The initial broadcast synchronization, in conjunction with the
    retransmission mechanism, ensures that all packets will eventually be
    acknowledged by the correct set of destinations.

    This commit introduces these changes.

    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

16 Oct, 2015

1 commit

  • When a link is taken down because of a node local event, such as
    disabling of a bearer or an interface, we currently leave it to the
    peer node to discover the broken communication. The default time for
    such failure discovery is 1.5-2 seconds.

    If we instead allow the terminating link endpoint to send out a RESET
    message at the moment it is reset, we can achieve the impression that
    both endpoints are going down instantly. Since this is a very common
    scenario, we find it worthwhile to make this small modification.

    Apart from letting the link produce the said message, we also have to
    ensure that the interface is able to transmit it before TIPC is
    detached. We do this by performing the disabling of a bearer in three
    steps:

    1) Disable reception of TIPC packets from the interface in question.
    2) Take down the links, while allowing them so send out a RESET message.
    3) Disable transmission of TIPC packets on the interface.

    Apart from this, we now have to react on the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN event,
    instead of as currently the NEDEV_DOWN event, to ensure that such
    transmission is possible during the teardown phase.

    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Acked-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

31 Jul, 2015

1 commit

  • In line with our effort to let the node level have full control over
    its links, we want to move all link reset calls from link.c to node.c.
    Some of the calls can be moved by simply moving the calling function,
    when this is the right thing to do. For the remaining calls we use
    the now established technique of returning a TIPC_LINK_DOWN_EVT
    flag from tipc_link_rcv(), whereafter we perform the reset call when
    the call returns.

    This change serves as a preparation for the coming commits.

    Tested-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

21 Jul, 2015

1 commit

  • Currently, message sending is performed through a deep call chain,
    where the node spinlock is grabbed and held during a significant
    part of the transmission time. This is clearly detrimental to
    overall throughput performance; it would be better if we could send
    the message after the spinlock has been released.

    In this commit, we do instead let the call revert on the stack after
    the buffer chain has been added to the transmission queue, whereafter
    clones of the buffers are transmitted to the device layer outside the
    spinlock scope.

    As a further step in our effort to separate the roles of the node
    and link entities we also move the function tipc_link_xmit() to
    node.c, and rename it to tipc_node_xmit().

    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

15 May, 2015

1 commit

  • Since commit 4b475e3f2f8e4e241de101c8240f1d74d0470494
    ("tipc: eliminate delayed link deletion at link failover") the extra
    boolean parameter "shutting_down" is not any longer needed for the
    functions bearer_disable() and tipc_link_delete_list().

    Furhermore, the function tipc_link_reset_links(), called from
    bearer_reset() is now unnecessary. We can just as well delete
    all the links, as we do in bearer_disable(), and start over with
    creating new links.

    This commit introduces those changes.

    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

10 May, 2015

1 commit

  • Default link properties can be set for media or bearer. This
    functionality was missed when introducing the NL compatibility layer.

    This patch implements this functionality in the compat netlink
    layer. It works the same way as it did in the old API. We search for
    media and bearers matching the "link name". If we find a matching
    media or bearer the link tolerance, priority or window is used as
    default for new links on that media or bearer.

    Fixes: 37e2d4843f9e (tipc: convert legacy nl link prop set to nl compat)
    Reported-by: Tomi Ollila
    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     

30 Apr, 2015

1 commit

  • NLM_F_MULTI must be used only when a NLMSG_DONE message is sent. In fact,
    it is sent only at the end of a dump.

    Libraries like libnl will wait forever for NLMSG_DONE.

    Fixes: 35b9dd7607f0 ("tipc: add bearer get/dump to new netlink api")
    Fixes: 7be57fc69184 ("tipc: add link get/dump to new netlink api")
    Fixes: 46f15c6794fb ("tipc: add media get/dump to new netlink api")
    CC: Richard Alpe
    CC: Jon Maloy
    CC: Ying Xue
    CC: tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
    Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Nicolas Dichtel
     

11 Mar, 2015

1 commit

  • commit afaa3f65f65fda2e7b190aac7e2a75d9a2a77cb6
    (tipc: purge links when bearer is disabled) was an attempt to resolve
    a problem that turned out to have a more profound reason.

    When we disable a bearer, we delete all its pertaining links if
    there is no other bearer to perform failover to, or if the module
    is shutting down. In case there are dual bearers, we wait with
    deleting links until the failover procedure is finished.

    However, this misses the case when a link on the removed bearer
    was already down, so that there will be no failover procedure to
    finish the link delete. This causes confusion if a new bearer is
    added to replace the removed one, and also entails a small memory
    leak.

    This commit takes the current state of the link into account when
    deciding when to delete it, and also reverses the above-mentioned
    commit.

    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Jon Paul Maloy
     

06 Mar, 2015

1 commit

  • The ip/udp bearer can be configured in a point-to-point
    mode by specifying both local and remote ip/hostname,
    or it can be enabled in multicast mode, where links are
    established to all tipc nodes that have joined the same
    multicast group. The multicast IP address is generated
    based on the TIPC network ID, but can be overridden by
    using another multicast address as remote ip.

    Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Erik Hugne
     

28 Feb, 2015

1 commit

  • If a bearer is disabled by manual intervention, all links over that
    bearer should be purged, indicated with the 'shutting_down' flag.
    Otherwise tipc will get confused if a new bearer is enabled using
    a different media type.

    Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Erik Hugne
     

10 Feb, 2015

6 commits

  • tipc_snprintf() was heavily utilized by the old netlink API which no
    longer exists (now netlink compat).

    In this patch we swap tipc_snprintf() to the identical scnprintf() in
    the only remaining occurrence.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     
  • Add TIPC_CMD_NOOP to compat layer and remove the old framework.

    All legacy nl commands are now converted to the compat layer in
    netlink_compat.c.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     
  • Convert TIPC_CMD_GET_MEDIA_NAMES to compat dumpit.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     
  • Introduce a framework for transcoding legacy nl action into actions
    (.doit) calls from the new nl API. This is done by converting the
    incoming TLV data into netlink data with nested netlink attributes.
    Unfortunately due to the randomness of the legacy API we can't do this
    generically so each legacy netlink command requires a specific
    transcoding recipe. In this case for bearer enable and bearer disable.

    Convert TIPC_CMD_ENABLE_BEARER and TIPC_CMD_DISABLE_BEARER into doit
    compat calls.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     
  • Introduce a framework for dumping netlink data from the new netlink
    API and formatting it to the old legacy API format. This is done by
    looping the dump data and calling a format handler for each entity, in
    this case a bearer.

    We dump until either all data is dumped or we reach the limited buffer
    size of the legacy API. Remember, the legacy API doesn't scale.

    In this commit we convert TIPC_CMD_GET_BEARER_NAMES to use the compat
    layer.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     
  • The new netlink API is no longer "v2" but rather the standard API and
    the legacy API is now "nl compat". We split them into separate
    start/stop and put them in different files in order to further
    distinguish them.

    Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe
    Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne
    Reviewed-by: Ying Xue
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Richard Alpe
     

13 Jan, 2015

1 commit

  • If net namespace is supported in tipc, each namespace will be treated
    as a separate tipc node. Therefore, every namespace must own its
    private tipc node address. This means the "tipc_own_addr" global
    variable of node address must be moved to tipc_net structure to
    satisfy the requirement. It's turned out that users also can assign
    node address for every namespace.

    Signed-off-by: Ying Xue
    Tested-by: Tero Aho
    Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Ying Xue