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* tipc: add function for checking broadcast support in bearerJon Paul Maloy2017-01-201-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: check minimum bearer MTUMichal Kubeček2016-12-021-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <mkubecek@suse.cz> Reported-by: Qian Zhang (张谦) <zhangqian-c@360.cn> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: introduce UDP replicastRichard Alpe2016-08-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: make bearer packet filtering genericJon Paul Maloy2016-08-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add a function to get the bearer nameParthasarathy Bhuvaragan2016-07-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Introduce a new function to get the bearer name from its id. This is used in subsequent commit. Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller2016-07-241-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Just several instances of overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * tipc: reset all unicast links when broadcast send link failsJon Paul Maloy2016-07-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | tipc: add neighbor monitoring frameworkJon Paul Maloy2016-06-151-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove remnants of old broadcast codeJon Paul Maloy2016-04-131-15/+0
| | | | | | | | | | We remove a couple of leftover fields in struct tipc_bearer. Those were used by the old broadcast implementation, and are not needed any longer. There is no functional changes in this commit. Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: eliminate remnants of hungarian notationJon Paul Maloy2015-11-201-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: clean up unused code and structuresJon Paul Maloy2015-10-241-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: let neighbor discoverer tranmsit consumable buffersJon Paul Maloy2015-10-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: introduce jumbo frame support for broadcastJon Paul Maloy2015-10-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: simplify bearer level broadcastJon Paul Maloy2015-10-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: make media xmit call outside node spinlock contextJon Paul Maloy2015-07-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: simplify include dependenciesJon Paul Maloy2015-05-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we try to add new inline functions in the code, we sometimes run into circular include dependencies. The main problem is that the file core.h, which really should be at the root of the dependency chain, instead is a leaf. I.e., core.h includes a number of header files that themselves should be allowed to include core.h. In reality this is unnecessary, because core.h does not need to know the full signature of any of the structs it refers to, only their type declaration. In this commit, we remove all dependencies from core.h towards any other tipc header file. As a consequence of this change, we can now move the function tipc_own_addr(net) from addr.c to addr.h, and make it inline. There are no functional changes in this commit. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add ip/udp media typeErik Hugne2015-03-051-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: make media address offset a common defineErik Hugne2015-02-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | With the exception of infiniband media which does not use media offsets, the media address is always located at offset 4 in the media info field as defined by the protocol, so we move the definition to the generic bearer.h Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: rename media/msg related definitionsErik Hugne2015-02-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | The TIPC_MEDIA_ADDR_SIZE and TIPC_MEDIA_ADDR_OFFSET names are misleading, as they actually define the size and offset of the whole media info field and not the address part. This patch does not have any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: convert legacy nl media dump to nl compatRichard Alpe2015-02-091-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Convert TIPC_CMD_GET_MEDIA_NAMES to compat dumpit. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: convert legacy nl bearer enable/disable to nl compatRichard Alpe2015-02-091-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: convert legacy nl bearer dump to nl compatRichard Alpe2015-02-091-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: make tipc broadcast link support net namespaceYing Xue2015-01-121-6/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | TIPC broadcast link is statically established and its relevant states are maintained with the global variables: "bcbearer", "bclink" and "bcl". Allowing different namespace to own different broadcast link instances, these variables must be moved to tipc_net structure and broadcast link instances would be allocated and initialized when namespace is created. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: make bearer list support net namespaceYing Xue2015-01-121-9/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bearer list defined as a global variable is used to store bearer instances. When tipc supports net namespace, bearers created in one namespace must be isolated with others allocated in other namespaces, which requires us that the bearer list(bearer_list) must be moved to tipc_net structure. As a result, a net namespace pointer has to be passed to functions which access the bearer list. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: make tipc node table aware of net namespaceYing Xue2015-01-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Global variables associated with node table are below: - node table list (node_htable) - node hash table list (tipc_node_list) - node table lock (node_list_lock) - node number counter (tipc_num_nodes) - node link number counter (tipc_num_links) To make node table support namespace, above global variables must be moved to tipc_net structure in order to keep secret for different namespaces. As a consequence, these variables are allocated and initialized when namespace is created, and deallocated when namespace is destroyed. After the change, functions associated with these variables have to utilize a namespace pointer to access them. So adding namespace pointer as a parameter of these functions is the major change made in the commit. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: involve namespace infrastructureYing Xue2015-01-121-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Involve namespace infrastructure, make the "tipc_net_id" global variable aware of per namespace, and rename it to "net_id". In order that the conversion can be successfully done, an instance of networking namespace must be passed to relevant functions, allowing them to access the "net_id" variable of per namespace. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: use generic SKB list APIs to manage link receive queueYing Xue2014-11-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Use standard SKB list APIs associated with struct sk_buff_head to manage link's receive queue to simplify its relevant code cemplexity. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add media set to new netlink apiRichard Alpe2014-11-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add TIPC_NL_MEDIA_SET command to the new tipc netlink API. This command can set one or more link properties for a particular media. Netlink logical layout of bearer set message: -> media -> name -> link properties [ -> tolerance ] [ -> priority ] [ -> window ] Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add media get/dump to new netlink apiRichard Alpe2014-11-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add TIPC_NL_MEDIA_GET command to the new tipc netlink API. This command supports dumping all information about all defined media as well as getting all information about a specific media. The information about a media includes name and link properties. Netlink logical layout of media get response message: -> media -> name -> link properties -> tolerance -> priority -> window Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add bearer set to new netlink apiRichard Alpe2014-11-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add TIPC_NL_BEARER_SET command to the new tipc netlink API. This command can set one or more link properties for a particular bearer. Netlink logical layout of bearer set message: -> bearer -> name -> link properties [ -> tolerance ] [ -> priority ] [ -> window ] Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add bearer get/dump to new netlink apiRichard Alpe2014-11-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add TIPC_NL_BEARER_GET command to the new tipc netlink API. This command supports dumping all data about all bearers or getting all information about a specific bearer. The information about a bearer includes name, link priorities and domain. Netlink logical layout of bearer get message: -> bearer -> name Netlink logical layout of returned bearer information: -> bearer -> name -> link properties -> priority -> tolerance -> window -> domain Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink apiRichard Alpe2014-11-211-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new netlink API for tipc that can disable or enable a tipc bearer. The new API is separated from the old API because of a bug in the user space client (tipc-config). The problem is that older versions of tipc-config has a very low receive limit and adding commands to the legacy genl_opts struct causes the ctrl_getfamily() response message to grow, subsequently breaking the tool. The new API utilizes netlink policies for input validation. Where the top-level netlink attributes are tipc-logical entities, like bearer. The top level entities then contain nested attributes. In this case a name, nested link properties and a domain. Netlink commands implemented in this patch: TIPC_NL_BEARER_ENABLE TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE Netlink logical layout of bearer enable message: -> bearer -> name [ -> domain ] [ -> properties -> priority ] Netlink logical layout of bearer disable message: -> bearer -> name Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: improve and extend media address conversion functionsJon Paul Maloy2014-05-141-16/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TIPC currently handles two media specific addresses: Ethernet MAC addresses and InfiniBand addresses. Those are kept in three different formats: 1) A "raw" format as obtained from the device. This format is known only by the media specific adapter code in eth_media.c and ib_media.c. 2) A "generic" internal format, in the form of struct tipc_media_addr, which can be referenced and passed around by the generic media- unaware code. 3) A serialized version of the latter, to be conveyed in neighbor discovery messages. Conversion between the three formats can only be done by the media specific code, so we have function pointers for this purpose in struct tipc_media. Here, the media adapters can install their own conversion functions at startup. We now introduce a new such function, 'raw2addr()', whose purpose is to convert from format 1 to format 2 above. We also try to as far as possible uniform commenting, variable names and usage of these functions, with the purpose of making them more comprehensible. We can now also remove the function tipc_l2_media_addr_set(), whose job is done better by the new function. Finally, we expand the field for serialized addresses (format 3) in discovery messages from 20 to 32 bytes. This is permitted according to the spec, and reduces the risk of problems when we add new media in the future. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: use RCU to protect media_ptr pointerYing Xue2014-04-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now the media_ptr pointer is protected with tipc_net_lock write lock on write side; tipc_net_lock read lock is used to read side. As the part of effort of eliminating tipc_net_lock, we decide to adjust the locking policy of media_ptr pointer protection: on write side, RTNL lock is use while on read side RCU read lock is applied. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: decouple the relationship between bearer and linkYing Xue2014-04-221-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently on both paths of message transmission and reception, the read lock of tipc_net_lock must be held before bearer is accessed, while the write lock of tipc_net_lock has to be taken before bearer is configured. Although it can ensure that bearer is always valid on the two data paths, link and bearer is closely bound together. So as the part of effort of removing tipc_net_lock, the locking policy of bearer protection will be adjusted as below: on the two data paths, RCU is used, and on the configuration path of bearer, RTNL lock is applied. Now RCU just covers the path of message reception. To make it possible to protect the path of message transmission with RCU, link should not use its stored bearer pointer to access bearer, but it should use the bearer identity of its attached bearer as index to get bearer instance from bearer_list array, which can help us decouple the relationship between bearer and link. As a result, bearer on the path of message transmission can be safely protected by RCU when we access bearer_list array within RCU lock protection. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: convert bearer_list to RCU listYing Xue2014-04-221-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Convert bearer_list to RCU list. It's protected by RTNL lock on update side, and RCU read lock is applied to read side. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: fix neighbor detection problem after hw address changeErik Hugne2014-03-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the hardware address of a underlying netdevice is changed, it is not enough to simply reset the bearer/links over this device. We also need to reflect this change in the TIPC bearer and node discovery structures aswell. This patch adds the necessary reinitialization of the node disovery mechanism following a hardware address change so that the correct originating media address is advertised in the discovery messages. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reported-by: Dong Liu <dliu.cn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove active flag from tipc_bearer structureYing Xue2014-03-271-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | After the allocation of tipc_bearer structure instance is converted from statical way to dynamical way, we identify whether a certain tipc_bearer structure pointer is valid by checking whether the pointer is NULL or not. So the active flag in tipc_bearer structure becomes redundant. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: convert tipc_bearers array to pointer listYing Xue2014-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | As part of the effort to introduce RCU protection for the bearer list, we first need to change it to a list of pointers. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove bearer_lock from tipc_bearer structYing Xue2014-02-131-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After the earlier commits ("tipc: remove 'links' list from tipc_bearer struct") and ("tipc: introduce new spinlock to protect struct link_req"), there is no longer any need to protect struct link_req or or any link list by use of bearer_lock. Furthermore, we have eliminated the need for using bearer_lock during downcalls (send) from the link to the bearer, since we have ensured that bearers always have a longer life cycle that their associated links, and always contain valid data. So, the only need now for a lock protecting bearers is for guaranteeing consistency of the bearer list itself. For this, it is sufficient, at least for the time being, to continue applying 'net_lock´ in write mode. By removing bearer_lock we also pre-empt introduction of issue b) descibed in the previous commit "tipc: remove 'links' list from tipc_bearer struct": "b) When the outer protection from net_lock is gone, taking bearer_lock and node_lock in opposite order of method 1) and 2) will become an obvious deadlock hazard". Therefore, we now eliminate the bearer_lock spinlock. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove 'links' list from tipc_bearer structYing Xue2014-02-131-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In our ongoing effort to simplify the TIPC locking structure, we see a need to remove the linked list for tipc_links in the bearer. This can be explained as follows. Currently, we have three different ways to access a link, via three different lists/tables: 1: Via a node hash table: Used by the time-critical outgoing/incoming data paths. (e.g. link_send_sections_fast() and tipc_recv_msg() ): grab net_lock(read) find node from node hash table grab node_lock select link grab bearer_lock send_msg() release bearer_lock release node lock release net_lock 2: Via a global linked list for nodes: Used by configuration commands (link_cmd_set_value()) grab net_lock(read) find node and link from global node list (using link name) grab node_lock update link release node lock release net_lock (Same locking order as above. No problem.) 3: Via the bearer's linked link list: Used by notifications from interface (e.g. tipc_disable_bearer() ) grab net_lock(write) grab bearer_lock get link ptr from bearer's link list get node from link grab node_lock delete link release node lock release bearer_lock release net_lock (Different order from above, but works because we grab the outer net_lock in write mode first, excluding all other access.) The first major goal in our simplification effort is to get rid of the "big" net_lock, replacing it with rcu-locks when accessing the node list and node hash array. This will come in a later patch series. But to get there we first need to rewrite access methods ##2 and 3, since removal of net_lock would introduce three major problems: a) In access method #2, we access the link before taking the protecting node_lock. This will not work once net_lock is gone, so we will have to change the access order. We will deal with this in a later commit in this series, "tipc: add node lock protection to link found by link_find_link()". b) When the outer protection from net_lock is gone, taking bearer_lock and node_lock in opposite order of method 1) and 2) will become an obvious deadlock hazard. This is fixed in the commit ("tipc: remove bearer_lock from tipc_bearer struct") later in this series. c) Similar to what is described in problem a), access method #3 starts with using a link pointer that is unprotected by node_lock, in order to via that pointer find the correct node struct and lock it. Before we remove net_lock, this access order must be altered. This is what we do with this commit. We can avoid introducing problem problem c) by even here using the global node list to find the node, before accessing its links. When we loop though the node list we use the own bearer identity as search criteria, thus easily finding the links that are associated to the resetting/disabling bearer. It should be noted that although this method is somewhat slower than the current list traversal, it is in no way time critical. This is only about resetting or deleting links, something that must be considered relatively infrequent events. As a bonus, we can get rid of the mutual pointers between links and bearers. After this commit, pointer dependency go in one direction only: from the link to the bearer. This commit pre-empts introduction of problem c) as described above. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: rename functions related to link failover and improve commentsJon Paul Maloy2014-01-071-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The functionality related to link addition and failover is unnecessarily hard to understand and maintain. We try to improve this by renaming some of the functions, at the same time adding or improving the explanatory comments around them. Names such as "tipc_rcv()" etc. also align better with what is used in other networking components. The changes in this commit are purely cosmetic, no functional changes are made. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove unused codestephen hemminger2014-01-041-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove dead code; tipc_bearer_find_interface tipc_node_redundant_links This may break out of tree version of TIPC if there still is one. But that maybe a good thing :-) Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: eliminate code duplication in media layerYing Xue2013-12-111-15/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently TIPC supports two L2 media types, Ethernet and Infiniband. Because both these media are accessed through the common net_device API, several functions in the two media adaptation files turn out to be fully or almost identical, leading to unnecessary code duplication. In this commit we extract this common code from the two media files and move them to the generic bearer.c. Additionally, we change the function names to reflect their real role: to access L2 media, irrespective of type. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: relocate common functions from media to bearerYing Xue2013-12-111-9/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, registering a TIPC stack handler in the network device layer is done twice, once for Ethernet (eth_media) and Infiniband (ib_media) repectively. But, as this registration is not media specific, we can avoid some code duplication by moving the registering function to the generic bearer layer, to the file bearer.c, and call it only once. The same is true for the network device event notifier. As a side effect, the two workqueues we are using for for setting up/ cleaning up media can now be eliminated. Furthermore, the array for storing the specific media type structs, media_array[], can be entirely deleted. Note that the eth_started and ib_started flags were removed during the code relocation. There is now only one call to bearer_setup and bearer_cleanup, and these can logically not race against each other. Despite its size, this cleanup work incurs no functional changes in TIPC. In particular, it should be noted that the sequence ordering of received packets is unaffected by this change, since packet reception never was subject to any work queue handling in the first place. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove TIPC usage of field af_packet_priv in struct net_deviceYing Xue2013-12-111-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TIPC is currently using the field 'af_packet_priv' in struct net_device as a handle to find the bearer instance associated to the given network device. But, by doing so it is blocking other networking cleanups, such as the one discussed here: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/178044/ This commit removes this usage from TIPC. Instead, we introduce a new field, 'tipc_ptr', to the net_device structure, to serve this purpose. When TIPC bearer is enabled, the bearer object is associated to 'tipc_ptr'. When a TIPC packet arrives in the recv_msg() upcall from a networking device, the bearer object can now be obtained from 'tipc_ptr'. When a bearer is disabled, the bearer object is detached from its underlying network device by setting 'tipc_ptr' to NULL. Additionally, an RCU lock is used to protect the new pointer. Henceforth, the existing tipc_net_lock is used in write mode to serialize write accesses to this pointer, while the new RCU lock is applied on the read side to ensure that the pointer is 100% valid within its wrapped area for all readers. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: improve naming and comment consistency in media layerJon Paul Maloy2013-12-111-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct 'tipc_media' represents the specific info that the media layer adaptors (eth_media and ib_media) expose to the generic bearer layer. We clarify this by improved commenting, and by giving the 'media_list' array the more appropriate name 'media_info_array'. There are no functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: initiate media type array at compile timeJon Paul Maloy2013-12-111-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Communication media types are abstracted through the struct 'tipc_media', one per media type. These structs are allocated statically inside their respective media file. Furthermore, in order to be able to reach all instances from a central location, we keep a static array with pointers to these structs. This array is currently initialized at runtime, under protection of tipc_net_lock. However, since the contents of the array itself never changes after initialization, we can just as well initialize it at compile time and make it 'const', at the same time making it obvious that no lock protection is needed here. This commit makes the array constant and removes the redundant lock protection. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: remove interface state mirroring in bearerErik Hugne2013-12-091-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct 'tipc_bearer' is a generic representation of the underlying media type, and exists in a one-to-one relationship to each interface TIPC is using. The struct contains a 'blocked' flag that mirrors the operational and execution state of the represented interface, and is updated through notification calls from the latter. The users of tipc_bearer are checking this flag before each attempt to send a packet via the interface. This state mirroring serves no purpose in the current code base. TIPC links will not discover a media failure any faster through this mechanism, and in reality the flag only adds overhead at packet sending and reception. Furthermore, the fact that the flag needs to be protected by a spinlock aggregated into tipc_bearer has turned out to cause a serious and completely unnecessary deadlock problem. CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- Time 0: bearer_disable() link_timeout() Time 1: spin_lock_bh(&b_ptr->lock) tipc_link_push_queue() Time 2: tipc_link_delete() tipc_bearer_blocked(b_ptr) Time 3: k_cancel_timer(&req->timer) spin_lock_bh(&b_ptr->lock) Time 4: del_timer_sync(&req->timer) I.e., del_timer_sync() on CPU0 never returns, because the timer handler on CPU1 is waiting for the bearer lock. We eliminate the 'blocked' flag from struct tipc_bearer, along with all tests on this flag. This not only resolves the deadlock, but also simplifies and speeds up the data path execution of TIPC. It also fits well into our ongoing effort to make the locking policy simpler and more manageable. An effect of this change is that we can get rid of functions such as tipc_bearer_blocked(), tipc_continue() and tipc_block_bearer(). We replace the latter with a new function, tipc_reset_bearer(), which resets all links associated to the bearer immediately after an interface goes down. A user might notice one slight change in link behaviour after this change. When an interface goes down, (e.g. through a NETDEV_DOWN event) all attached links will be reset immediately, instead of leaving it to each link to detect the failure through a timer-driven mechanism. We consider this an improvement, and see no obvious risks with the new behavior. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <Paul.Gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: avoid unnecessary lookup for tipc bearer instanceYing Xue2013-10-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tipc_block_bearer() currently takes a bearer name (const char*) as argument. This requires the function to make a lookup to find the pointer to the corresponding bearer struct. In the current code base this is not necessary, since the only two callers (tipc_continue(),recv_notification()) already have validated copies of this pointer, and hence can pass it directly in the function call. We change tipc_block_bearer() to directly take struct tipc_bearer* as argument instead. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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