Commit c2f7f0e7 authored Feb 10, 2011 by Sven Eckelmann

batman-adv: Use successive sequence numbers for fragments

The two fragments of an unicast packet must have successive sequence numbers to
allow the receiver side to detect matching fragments and merge them again. The
current implementation doesn't provide that property because a sequence of two
atomic_inc_return may be interleaved with another sequence which also changes
the variable.

The access to the fragment sequence number pool has either to be protected by
correct locking or it has to reserve two sequence numbers in a single fetch.
The latter one can easily be done by increasing the value of the last used
sequence number by 2 in a single step. The generated window of two currently
unused sequence numbers can now be scattered across the two fragments.

Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

parent 091b9483

net/batman-adv/unicast.c

+4 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ int frag_send_skb(struct sk_buff skb, struct bat_priv bat_priv,
		int ucf_hdr_len = sizeof(struct unicast_frag_packet);
		int data_len = skb->len - uc_hdr_len;
		int large_tail = 0;
		uint16_t seqno;

		if (!bat_priv->primary_if)
		goto dropped;
		@@ -261,10 +262,9 @@ int frag_send_skb(struct sk_buff skb, struct bat_priv bat_priv,
		frag1->flags = UNI_FRAG_HEAD \| large_tail;
		frag2->flags = large_tail;

		frag1->seqno = htons((uint16_t)atomic_inc_return(
		&batman_if->frag_seqno));
		frag2->seqno = htons((uint16_t)atomic_inc_return(
		&batman_if->frag_seqno));
		seqno = atomic_add_return(2, &batman_if->frag_seqno);
		frag1->seqno = htons(seqno - 1);
		frag2->seqno = htons(seqno);

		send_skb_packet(skb, batman_if, dstaddr);
		send_skb_packet(frag_skb, batman_if, dstaddr);

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