batman-adv: Use consistent name for mesh interface

The way how the virtual interface is called inside the batman-adv source
code is not consistent. The genl headers call it meshif and the rest of th

batman-adv: Use consistent name for mesh interface

The way how the virtual interface is called inside the batman-adv source
code is not consistent. The genl headers call it meshif and the rest of the
code calls is (mostly) softif.

The genl definitions cannot be touched because they are part of the UAPI.
But the rest of the batman-adv code can be touched to have a consistent
name again.

The bulk of the renaming was done using

sed -i -e 's/soft\(-\|\_\| \|\)i\([nf]\)/mesh\1i\2/g' \
-e 's/SOFT\(-\|\_\| \|\)I\([NF]\)/MESH\1I\2/g'

and then it was adjusted slightly when proofreading the changes.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: mcast: implement multicast packet reception and forwarding

Implement functionality to receive and forward a new TVLV capable
multicast packet type.

The new batman-adv multicast packet t

batman-adv: mcast: implement multicast packet reception and forwarding

Implement functionality to receive and forward a new TVLV capable
multicast packet type.

The new batman-adv multicast packet type allows to contain several
originator destination addresses within a TVLV. Routers on the way will
potentially split the batman-adv multicast packet and adjust its tracker
TVLV contents.

Routing decisions are still based on the selected BATMAN IV or BATMAN V
routing algorithm. So this new batman-adv multicast packet type retains
the same loop-free properties.

Also a new OGM multicast TVLV flag is introduced to signal to other
nodes that we are capable of handling a batman-adv multicast packet and
multicast tracker TVLV. And that all of our hard interfaces have an MTU
of at least 1280 bytes (IPv6 minimum MTU), as a simple solution for now
to avoid MTU issues while forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next)
as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code me

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next)
as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code mentioned
in the MAINTAINERS "BATMAN ADVANCED" section was handled as a single entity
regarding the publishing year.

This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright
holder) publishing information inside several files. But since the simple
"update copyright year" commit (without other changes) in the file was not
well received in the upstream kernel, the option to not have a copyright
year (for initial and last publication) in the files are chosen instead.
More detailed information about the years can still be retrieved from the
SCM system.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs support

The debugfs support in batman-adv was marked as deprecated by the commit
00caf6a2b318 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality as deprecated") and
schedul

batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs support

The debugfs support in batman-adv was marked as deprecated by the commit
00caf6a2b318 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality as deprecated") and
scheduled for removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support

The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit
42cdd521487f ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and
scheduled for re

batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support

The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit
42cdd521487f ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and
scheduled for removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

batman-adv: Make sysfs support optional

The sysfs files will be marked as deprecated in the near future. They are
already replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. Add an Kconfig
option to disa

batman-adv: Make sysfs support optional

The sysfs files will be marked as deprecated in the near future. They are
already replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. Add an Kconfig
option to disable the sysfs support for users who want to test their tools
or want to safe some space. This setting should currently still be enabled
by default to keep backward compatible with legacy tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369a4
("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the
required information

batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369a4
("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the
required information about the license conditions can be found in
LICENSES/.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2019

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

batman-adv: Provide debug messages as trace events

A private debug logging infrastructure is currently provided via
$debug_fs/batman_adv/*/log when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG is enabled. This is
not we

batman-adv: Provide debug messages as trace events

A private debug logging infrastructure is currently provided via
$debug_fs/batman_adv/*/log when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG is enabled. This is
not well integrated in the rest of the tracing infrastructure of the
kernel.

Other components (like mac80211 or ath10k) allow to gather the debug
messages using generic trace events which are better integrated. This makes
it possible to interact with them using the existing userspace tools.

The tracepoint batadv:batadv_dbg will now be available when
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG and CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_TRACING is activated. The log
level mask is still used for filtering as usual.

A full system trace for offline parsing can be created (and read) using:

$ batctl ll all
$ trace-cmd record -e batadv:batadv_dbg
$ trace-cmd report

The same can also be done without recording to a file

$ batctl ll all
$ trace-cmd stream -e batadv:batadv_dbg

The trace infrastructure is especially helpful when tracing processes:

$ batctl ll all
$ ./tools/perf/perf trace --event "batadv:*" batctl p 10.204.32.1
0.000 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Parsing outgoing ARP REQUEST
0.045 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 ARP MSG = [src: a2:64:14:53:f8:22-10.204.32.185 dst: 00:00:00:00:00:00-10.204.32.1]
0.067 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Entry updated: 10.204.32.185 a2:64:14:53:f8:22 (vid: -1)
0.099 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 batadv_dat_select_candidates(): IP=10.204.32.1 hash(IP)=48902
0.757 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 0: selected fe:2c:91:68:29:2b addr=48977 dist=65460
1.178 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 1: selected fe:81:ab:c5:e3:03 addr=49181 dist=65256
1.809 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 2: selected 66:25:a7:48:37:fb addr=49328 dist=65109
1.828 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 DHT_SEND for 10.204.32.1

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2018

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header

The "Linux kernel licensing rules" require that each file has a SPDX
license identifier as first line (and sometimes as second line).

batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header

The "Linux kernel licensing rules" require that each file has a SPDX
license identifier as first line (and sometimes as second line).

The FSFE REUSE practices [1] would also require the same tags but have no
restrictions on the placement in the source file. Using the "Linux kernel
licensing rules" is therefore also fulfilling the FSFE REUSE practices
requirements at the same time.

[1] https://reuse.software/practices/

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: update copyright years for 2017

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

batman-adv: Allow to disable debugfs support

The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to
netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may
still

batman-adv: Allow to disable debugfs support

The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to
netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may
still rely on the old debugfs files. But systems which already upgraded
their tools can save some space by disabling this feature. The default
configuration of batman-adv on amd64 can reduce the size of the module by
around 11% when this feature is disabled.

$ size net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko*
text data bss dec hex filename
150507 10395 4160 165062 284c6 net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.y
137106 7099 2112 146317 23b8d net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.n

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: throughput meter implementation

The throughput meter module is a simple, kernel-space replacement for
throughtput measurements tool like iperf and netperf. It is intended to
approximate

batman-adv: throughput meter implementation

The throughput meter module is a simple, kernel-space replacement for
throughtput measurements tool like iperf and netperf. It is intended to
approximate TCP behaviour.

It is invoked through batctl: the protocol is connection oriented, with
cumulative acknowledgment and a dynamic-size sliding window.

The test *can* be interrupted by batctl. A receiver side timeout avoids
unlimited waitings for sender packets: after one second of inactivity, the
receiver abort the ongoing test.

Based on a prototype from Edo Monticelli <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-adv

debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel
where files are dynamically added and removed (see
http://lkml.iu.edu/hy

batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-adv

debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel
where files are dynamically added and removed (see
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some
details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware.

Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be
moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers
for debug tables and hard to parse text files.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>
[[email protected]: Strip down patch to only add genl family,
add missing kerneldoc]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functions

There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related
functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them
eas

batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functions

There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related
functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them
easier to find.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: move bat_algo functions into a separate file

The bat_algo functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~

batman-adv: move bat_algo functions into a separate file

The bat_algo functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~15%, 103
lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main
component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other
helper functions in main.c.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: split tvlv into a separate file

The tvlv functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~45%, 588
lines).

batman-adv: split tvlv into a separate file

The tvlv functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~45%, 588
lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main
component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other
helper functions in main.c

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <[email protected]>
[[email protected]: fix conflicts with current version, fix includes,
rewrote commit message]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure

This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol
(version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the
newly added ELP.

In the previous vers

batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure

This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol
(version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the
newly added ELP.

In the previous version the OGM protocol was used to both
measure link qualities and flood the network with the metric
information. In this version the protocol is in charge of
the latter task only, leaving the former to ELP.

This means being able to decouple the interval used by the
neighbor discovery from the OGM broadcasting, which revealed
to be costly in dense networks and needed to be relaxed so
leading to a less responsive routing protocol.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure

The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single
message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to
the direct neighbors and spreading

batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure

The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single
message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to
the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality
information through the whole mesh. This procedure is
summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in
details in the RFC draft published in 2008.

This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the
protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it
also bears some drawbacks:

* Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss,
therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow
a fast reaction on flaky connections.
Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to
Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet
loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce
overhead.
* It generally is more desirable to detect local link
quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all
these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of
the mesh does not need to care about local link quality
changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like
reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't
used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time.

As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled
by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message
type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these
link quality information and determining the overall path
transmit qualities.

Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.

Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Makefile, Sort alphabetically

The whole Makefile is sorted, just the multicast rule is not at the
right position.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mare

batman-adv: Makefile, Sort alphabetically

The whole Makefile is sorted, just the multicast rule is not at the
right position.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: debugfs, avoid compiling for !DEBUG_FS

Normally the debugfs framework will return error pointer with -ENODEV
for function calls when DEBUG_FS is not set.

batman does not notice this err

batman-adv: debugfs, avoid compiling for !DEBUG_FS

Normally the debugfs framework will return error pointer with -ENODEV
for function calls when DEBUG_FS is not set.

batman does not notice this error code and continues trying to create
debugfs files and executes more code. We can avoid this code execution
by disabling compiling debugfs.c when DEBUG_FS is not set.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>