linux-toradex.git/net/tipc/msg.c, branch v4.3-rc6

tipc: reinitialize pointer after skb linearize

2015-09-21T05:31:20+00:00

The msg pointer into header may change after skb linearization.
We must reinitialize it after calling skb_linearize to prevent
operating on a freed or invalid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne 
Reported-by: Tamás Végh 
Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: clean up socket layer message reception

2015-07-26T23:31:50+00:00

When a message is received in a socket, one of the call chains
tipc_sk_rcv()->tipc_sk_enqueue()->filter_rcv()(->tipc_sk_proto_rcv())
or
tipc_sk_backlog_rcv()->filter_rcv()(->tipc_sk_proto_rcv())
are followed. At each of these levels we may encounter situations
where the message may need to be rejected, or a new message
produced for transfer back to the sender. Despite recent
improvements, the current code for doing this is perceived
as awkward and hard to follow.

Leveraging the two previous commits in this series, we now
introduce a more uniform handling of such situations. We
let each of the functions in the chain itself produce/reverse
the message to be returned to the sender, but also perform the
actual forwarding. This simplifies the necessary logics within
each function.

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

tipc: introduce new tipc_sk_respond() function

2015-07-26T23:31:50+00:00

Currently, we use the code sequence

if (msg_reverse())
   tipc_link_xmit_skb()

at numerous locations in socket.c. The preparation of arguments
for these calls, as well as the sequence itself, makes the code
unecessarily complex.

In this commit, we introduce a new function, tipc_sk_respond(),
that performs this call combination. We also replace some, but not
yet all, of these explicit call sequences with calls to the new
function. Notably, we let the function tipc_sk_proto_rcv() use
the new function to directly send out PROBE_REPLY messages,
instead of deferring this to the calling tipc_sk_rcv() function,
as we do now.

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

tipc: let function tipc_msg_reverse() expand header when needed

2015-07-26T23:31:50+00:00

The shortest TIPC message header, for cluster local CONNECTED messages,
is 24 bytes long. With this format, the fields "dest_node" and
"orig_node" are optimized away, since they in reality are redundant
in this particular case.

However, the absence of these fields leads to code inconsistencies
that are difficult to handle in some cases, especially when we need
to reverse or reject messages at the socket layer.

In this commit, we concentrate the handling of the absent fields
to one place, by letting the function tipc_msg_reverse() reallocate
the buffer and expand the header to 32 bytes when necessary. This
means that the socket code now can assume that the two previously
absent fields are present in the header when a message needs to be
rejected. This opens up for some further simplifications of the
socket code.

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

tipc: add packet sequence number at instant of transmission

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

Currently, the packet sequence number is updated and added to each
packet at the moment a packet is added to the link backlog queue.
This is wasteful, since it forces the code to traverse the send
packet list packet by packet when adding them to the backlog queue.
It would be better to just splice the whole packet list into the
backlog queue when that is the right action to do.

In this commit, we do this change. Also, since the sequence numbers
cannot now be assigned to the packets at the moment they are added
the backlog queue, we do instead calculate and add them at the moment
of transmission, when the backlog queue has to be traversed anyway.
We do this in the function tipc_link_push_packet().

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

tipc: improve link congestion algorithm

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

The link congestion algorithm used until now implies two problems.

- It is too generous towards lower-level messages in situations of high
  load by giving "absolute" bandwidth guarantees to the different
  priority levels. LOW traffic is guaranteed 10%, MEDIUM is guaranted
  20%, HIGH is guaranteed 30%, and CRITICAL is guaranteed 40% of the
  available bandwidth. But, in the absence of higher level traffic, the
  ratio between two distinct levels becomes unreasonable. E.g. if there
  is only LOW and MEDIUM traffic on a system, the former is guaranteed
  1/3 of the bandwidth, and the latter 2/3. This again means that if
  there is e.g. one LOW user and 10 MEDIUM users, the  former will have
  33.3% of the bandwidth, and the others will have to compete for the
  remainder, i.e. each will end up with 6.7% of the capacity.

- Packets of type MSG_BUNDLER are created at SYSTEM importance level,
  but only after the packets bundled into it have passed the congestion
  test for their own respective levels. Since bundled packets don't
  result in incrementing the level counter for their own importance,
  only occasionally for the SYSTEM level counter, they do in practice
  obtain SYSTEM level importance. Hence, the current implementation
  provides a gap in the congestion algorithm that in the worst case
  may lead to a link reset.

We now refine the congestion algorithm as follows:

- A message is accepted to the link backlog only if its own level
  counter, and all superior level counters, permit it.

- The importance of a created bundle packet is set according to its
  contents. A bundle packet created from messges at levels LOW to
  CRITICAL is given importance level CRITICAL, while a bundle created
  from a SYSTEM level message is given importance SYSTEM. In the latter
  case only subsequent SYSTEM level messages are allowed to be bundled
  into it.

This solves the first problem described above, by making the bandwidth
guarantee relative to the total number of users at all levels; only
the upper limit for each level remains absolute. In the example
described above, the single LOW user would use 1/11th of the bandwidth,
the same as each of the ten MEDIUM users, but he still has the same
guarantee against starvation as the latter ones.

The fix also solves the second problem. If the CRITICAL level is filled
up by bundle packets of that level, no lower level packets will be
accepted any more.

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

tipc: eliminate delayed link deletion at link failover

2015-04-02T20:27:12+00:00

When a bearer is disabled manually, all its links have to be reset
and deleted. However, if there is a remaining, parallel link ready
to take over a deleted link's traffic, we currently delay the delete
of the removed link until the failover procedure is finished. This
is because the remaining link needs to access state from the reset
link, such as the last received packet number, and any partially
reassembled buffer, in order to perform a successful failover.

In this commit, we do instead move the state data over to the new
link, so that it can fulfill the procedure autonomously, without
accessing any data on the old link. This means that we can now
proceed and delete all pertaining links immediately when a bearer
is disabled. This saves us from some unnecessary complexity in such
situations.

We also choose to change the confusing definitions CHANGEOVER_PROTOCOL,
ORIGINAL_MSG and DUPLICATE_MSG to the more descriptive TUNNEL_PROTOCOL,
FAILOVER_MSG and SYNCH_MSG respectively.

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

tipc: fix two bugs in secondary destination lookup

2015-03-29T20:47:36+00:00

A message sent to a node after a successful name table lookup may still
find that the destination socket has disappeared, because distribution
of name table updates is non-atomic. If so, the message will be rejected
back to the sender with error code TIPC_ERR_NO_PORT. If the source
socket of the message has disappeared in the meantime, the message
should be dropped.

However, in the currrent code, the message will instead be subject to an
unwanted tertiary lookup, because the function tipc_msg_lookup_dest()
doesn't check if there is an error code present in the message before
performing the lookup. In the worst case, the message may now find the
old destination again, and be redirected once more, instead of being
dropped directly as it should be.

A second bug in this function is that the "prev_node" field in the message
is not updated after successful lookup, something that may have
unpredictable consequences.

The problems arising from those bugs occur very infrequently.

The third change in this function; the test on msg_reroute_msg_cnt() is
purely cosmetic, reflecting that the returned value never can be negative.

This commit corrects the two bugs described above.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: clean up handling of message priorities

2015-03-14T18:38:32+00:00

Messages transferred by TIPC are assigned an "importance priority", -an
integer value indicating how to treat the message when there is link or
destination socket congestion.

There is no separate header field for this value. Instead, the message
user values have been chosen in ascending order according to perceived
importance, so that the message user field can be used for this.

This is not a good solution. First, we have many more users than the
needed priority levels, so we end up with treating more priority
levels than necessary. Second, the user field cannot always
accurately reflect the priority of the message. E.g., a message
fragment packet should really have the priority of the enveloped
user data message, and not the priority of the MSG_FRAGMENTER user.
Until now, we have been working around this problem in different ways,
but it is now time to implement a consistent way of handling such
priorities, although still within the constraint that we cannot
allocate any more bits in the regular data message header for this.

In this commit, we define a new priority level, TIPC_SYSTEM_IMPORTANCE,
that will be the only one used apart from the four (lower) user data
levels. All non-data messages map down to this priority. Furthermore,
we take some free bits from the MSG_FRAGMENTER header and allocate
them to store the priority of the enveloped message. We then adjust
the functions msg_importance()/msg_set_importance() so that they
read/set the correct header fields depending on user type.

This small protocol change is fully compatible, because the code at
the receiving end of a link currently reads the importance level
only from user data messages, where there is no change.

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

tipc: split link outqueue

2015-03-14T18:38:32+00:00

struct tipc_link contains one single queue for outgoing packets,
where both transmitted and waiting packets are queued.

This infrastructure is hard to maintain, because we need
to keep a number of fields to keep track of which packets are
sent or unsent, and the number of packets in each category.

A lot of code becomes simpler if we split this queue into a transmission
queue, where sent/unacknowledged packets are kept, and a backlog queue,
where we keep the not yet sent packets.

In this commit we do this separation.

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