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This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright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: Update copyright years for 2020

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

batman-adv: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value. The function can work or not, but the code log

batman-adv: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should
never do something different based on this.

Because we don't care if debugfs works or not, this trickles back a bit
so we can clean things up by making some functions return void instead
of an error value that is never going to fail.

Cc: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
[[email protected]: drop unused variables]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>

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batman-adv: Use includes instead of fwdecls

While it can be slightly beneficial for the build performance to use
forward declarations instead of includes, the handling of them together
with changes

batman-adv: Use includes instead of fwdecls

While it can be slightly beneficial for the build performance to use
forward declarations instead of includes, the handling of them together
with changes in the included headers makes it unnecessary complicated and
fragile. Just replace them with actual includes since some parts (hwmon,
..) of the kernel even request avoidance of forward declarations and net/
is mostly not using them in *.c file.

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: 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: 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: Remove batadv_ types forward declarations

main.h is included in every file and is the only way to access types.h.
This makes forward declarations for all types defined in types.h
unneces

batman-adv: Remove batadv_ types forward declarations

main.h is included in every file and is the only way to access types.h.
This makes forward declarations for all types defined in types.h
unnecessary.

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: Add required includes to all files

The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is
happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used.
This

batman-adv: Add required includes to all files

The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is
happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used.
This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the
knowledge about the right order of local includes.

Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly.
Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is
problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on
config settings and may not be stable in the future.

The order for include blocks are:

* primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file)
* global linux headers
* required local headers
* extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations

The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h.
This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must
therefore build together with userspace applications. The header
linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h
conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The
maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus
these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have
to include main.h to work correctly.

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

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014

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

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014

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

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batman-adv: remove returns at the end of void functions

Return at the end of void functions is not needed.

Since most of the void functions in the code do not do so,
make all the others consistent

batman-adv: remove returns at the end of void functions

Return at the end of void functions is not needed.

Since most of the void functions in the code do not do so,
make all the others consistent by removing the useless
returns. Actually all the functions to be "fixed" are in
network-coding.h only.

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

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batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer

As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this

batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer

As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

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

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batman-adv: tvlv - add network coding container

Create network coding container to announce network coding
capabilities (if enabled).

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

batman-adv: tvlv - add network coding container

Create network coding container to announce network coding
capabilities (if enabled).

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

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batman-adv: set up network coding packet handlers during module init

batman-adv saves its table of packet handlers as a global state, so handlers
must be set up only once (and setting them up a seco

batman-adv: set up network coding packet handlers during module init

batman-adv saves its table of packet handlers as a global state, so handlers
must be set up only once (and setting them up a second time will fail).

The recently-added network coding support tries to set up its handler each time
a new softif is registered, which obviously fails when more that one softif is
used (and in consequence, the softif creation fails).

Fix this by splitting up batadv_nc_init into batadv_nc_init (which is called
only once) and batadv_nc_mesh_init (which is called for each softif); in
addition batadv_nc_free is renamed to batadv_nc_mesh_free to keep naming
consistent.

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

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batman-adv: Move call to batadv_nc_skb_forward() from routing.c to send.c

The call to batadv_nc_skb_forward() fits better in
batadv_send_skb_to_orig(), as this is where the actual next hop is
looked

batman-adv: Move call to batadv_nc_skb_forward() from routing.c to send.c

The call to batadv_nc_skb_forward() fits better in
batadv_send_skb_to_orig(), as this is where the actual next hop is
looked up.

To let the caller of batadv_send_skb_to_orig() know wether the skb is
transmitted, buffered or failed, the return value is changed from
boolean to int.

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

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batman-adv: network coding - save overheard and tx packets for decoding

To be able to decode a network coded packet, a node must already know
one of the two coded packets. This is done by buffering

batman-adv: network coding - save overheard and tx packets for decoding

To be able to decode a network coded packet, a node must already know
one of the two coded packets. This is done by buffering skbs before
transmission and buffering packets sniffed with promiscuous mode from
other hosts.

Packets are kept in a buffer similar to the one with forward-skbs: A
hash table, where each entry, which corresponds to a src-dst pair, has a
linked list packets.

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

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batman-adv: network coding - buffer unicast packets before forward

Two be able to network code two packets, one packet must be buffered
until the next is available. This is done in a "coding buffer"

batman-adv: network coding - buffer unicast packets before forward

Two be able to network code two packets, one packet must be buffered
until the next is available. This is done in a "coding buffer", which is
essentially a hash table with lists of packets. Each entry in the hash
table corresponds to a specific src-dst pair, which has a linked list of
packets that are buffered.

This patch adds skbs to the buffer just before forwarding them. The
buffer is traversed every 10 ms, where timed skbs are removed from the
buffer and transmitted. To allow experiments with the network coding
scheme, the timeout is tunable through a file in debugfs.

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

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batman-adv: network coding - detect coding nodes and remove these after timeout

To use network coding efficiently, a relay must know when neighbor nodes
are likely to have enough information to be a

batman-adv: network coding - detect coding nodes and remove these after timeout

To use network coding efficiently, a relay must know when neighbor nodes
are likely to have enough information to be able to decode a network
coded packet. This is detected by using OGMs from batman-adv to discover
when one neighbor is in range of another neighbor. The relay check the
TLL to detect when an OGM is forwarded from one neighbor by another
neighbor, and thereby knows that the two neighbors are in range and thus
overhear packets sent by each other.

This information is saved in the orig_node struct to be used when
searching for coding opportunities. Two lists are added to the
orig_node struct: One for neighbors that can hear the orig_node
(outgoing nc_nodes) and one for neighbors that the orig_node can hear
(incoming nc_nodes).

Information about nc_nodes is kept for 10 seconds and is available
through debugfs in batman_adv/nc_nodes to use when debugging network
coding.

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

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batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code

Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can

batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code

Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B
2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B
3. Node A <--- p2 ---- Node R Node B
4. Node A Node R ---- p1 ---> Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B
2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B
3. Node A <- p1 x p2 - Node R - p1 x p2 -> Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

Node A Node B

| \ / |
| p1 p2 |
| \ / |
p1 > Node R < p2
| |
| / \ |
| p1 x p2 p1 x p2 |
v / \ v
/ \
Node C < > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

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

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