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Antonio Quartulli 30cfd02b60 batman-adv: detect not yet announced clients 
With the current TT mechanism a new client joining the network is not
immediately able to communicate with other hosts because its MAC address has not
been announced yet. This situation holds until the first OGM containing its
joining event will be spread over the mesh network.

This behaviour can be acceptable in networks where the originator interval is a
small value (e.g. 1sec) but if that value is set to an higher time (e.g. 5secs)
the client could suffer from several malfunctions like DHCP client timeouts,
etc.

This patch adds an early detection mechanism that makes nodes in the network
able to recognise "not yet announced clients" by means of the broadcast packets
they emitted on connection (e.g. ARP or DHCP request). The added client will
then be confirmed upon receiving the OGM claiming it or purged if such OGM
is not received within a fixed amount of time.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:22 +02:00
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9p net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
802 tokenring: delete all remaining driver support 2012-05-15 20:23:16 -04:00
8021q vlan: clean up vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() 2012-08-14 14:33:32 -07:00
appletalk net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
atm atm: fix info leak via getsockname() 2012-08-15 21:36:30 -07:00
ax25 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-07-19 11:17:30 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: detect not yet announced clients 2012-08-23 14:20:22 +02:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-08-22 14:21:38 -07:00
bridge Merge git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next 2012-08-22 18:48:52 -07:00
caif caif: Do not dereference NULL in chnl_recv_cb() 2012-08-20 02:47:49 -07:00
can can: gw: Remove pointless casts 2012-07-10 22:36:17 +02:00
ceph libceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak 2012-08-02 09:19:20 -07:00
core net: remove delay at device dismantle 2012-08-22 21:50:36 -07:00
dcb net: Fix non-kernel-doc comments with kernel-doc start marker 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
dccp dccp: fix info leak via getsockopt(DCCP_SOCKOPT_CCID_TX_INFO) 2012-08-15 21:36:31 -07:00
decnet net: Loopback ifindex is constant now 2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00
dns_resolver Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2012-05-21 20:27:36 -07:00
dsa dsa: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equal 2012-05-09 20:49:19 -04:00
ethernet ipx: move peII functions 2012-07-19 10:48:00 -07:00
ieee802154 6lowpan: Change byte order when storing/accessing to len field 2012-07-16 22:52:02 -07:00
ipv4 net: remove delay at device dismantle 2012-08-22 21:50:36 -07:00
ipv6 ipv6: gre: fix ip6gre_err() 2012-08-22 22:48:32 -07:00
ipx ipx: move peII functions 2012-07-19 10:48:00 -07:00
irda irda: Fix typo in irda 2012-07-16 23:23:52 -07:00
iucv net: remove skb_orphan_try() 2012-06-15 15:30:15 -07:00
key xfrm: remove redundant parameter "int dir" in struct xfrm_mgr.acquire 2012-08-15 15:13:30 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: fix info leak via getsockname() 2012-08-15 21:36:31 -07:00
lapb lapb: Neaten debugging 2012-05-17 18:45:20 -04:00
llc llc: fix info leak via getsockname() 2012-08-15 21:36:31 -07:00
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-08-15 14:29:37 -04:00
mac802154 mac802154: sparse warnings: make symbols static 2012-07-12 07:54:45 -07:00
netfilter Merge git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next 2012-08-22 18:48:52 -07:00
netlabel netlabel: use GFP flags from caller instead of GFP_ATOMIC 2012-03-22 19:29:57 -04:00
netlink af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520] 2012-08-21 14:53:01 -07:00
netrom net: Convert all sysctl registrations to register_net_sysctl 2012-04-20 21:22:30 -04:00
nfc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-07-20 12:30:48 -04:00
openvswitch Revert "openvswitch: potential NULL deref in sample()" 2012-07-27 13:45:51 -07:00
packet packet: Protect packet sk list with mutex (v2) 2012-08-22 22:58:27 -07:00
phonet net: remove my future former mail address 2012-06-17 16:29:38 -07:00
rds rds: Don't disable BH on BH context 2012-08-22 22:52:04 -07:00
rfkill rfkill: Add the capability to switch all devices of all type in __rfkill_switch_all(). 2012-06-06 15:18:17 -04:00
rose net: Convert all sysctl registrations to register_net_sysctl 2012-04-20 21:22:30 -04:00
rxrpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-07-10 23:56:33 -07:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-08-22 14:21:38 -07:00
sctp sctp: fix bogus if statement in sctp_auth_recv_cid() 2012-08-16 13:36:29 -07:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-31 19:25:39 -07:00
tipc tipc: eliminate configuration for maximum number of name publications 2012-08-20 02:26:31 -07:00
unix af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520] 2012-08-21 14:53:01 -07:00
wanrouter wanmain: comparing array with NULL 2012-07-24 13:55:21 -07:00
wimax net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int 2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
wireless cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device 2012-08-06 14:29:58 -04:00
x25 net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: fix RCU bugs 2012-08-22 22:39:46 -07:00
compat.c net: Fix references to out-of-scope variables in put_cmsg_compat() 2012-07-22 17:50:49 -07:00
Kconfig net: drop NET dependency from HAVE_BPF_JIT 2012-05-21 12:50:12 -07:00
Makefile econet: remove ancient bug ridden protocol 2012-05-18 01:35:08 -04:00
nonet.c
socket.c net: fix info leak in compat dev_ifconf() 2012-08-15 21:36:31 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring 2012-05-15 20:14:35 -04:00