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Wei Yongjun a5de125dd4 tipc: fix the error handling in tipc_udp_enable()
Fix to return a negative error code in enable_mcast() error handling
case, and release udp socket when necessary.

Fixes: d0f91938be ("tipc: add ip/udp media type")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-25 16:32:34 -07:00
Vegard Nossum d2fbdf76b8 tipc: fix NULL pointer dereference in shutdown()
tipc_msg_create() can return a NULL skb and if so, we shouldn't try to
call tipc_node_xmit_skb() on it.

    general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
    CPU: 3 PID: 30298 Comm: trinity-c0 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc7+ #19
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
    task: ffff8800baf09980 ti: ffff8800595b8000 task.ti: ffff8800595b8000
    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff830bb46b>]  [<ffffffff830bb46b>] tipc_node_xmit_skb+0x6b/0x140
    RSP: 0018:ffff8800595bfce8  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000003023b0e0
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: ffffffff83d12580
    RBP: ffff8800595bfd78 R08: ffffed000b2b7f32 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: fffffbfff0759725 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff1000b2b7f9f
    R13: ffff8800595bfd58 R14: ffffffff83d12580 R15: dffffc0000000000
    FS:  00007fcdde242700(0000) GS:ffff88011af80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00007fcddde1db10 CR3: 000000006874b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    DR0: 00007fcdde248000 DR1: 00007fcddd73d000 DR2: 00007fcdde248000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000090602
    Stack:
     0000000000000018 0000000000000018 0000000041b58ab3 ffffffff83954208
     ffffffff830bb400 ffff8800595bfd30 ffffffff8309d767 0000000000000018
     0000000000000018 ffff8800595bfd78 ffffffff8309da1a 00000000810ee611
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff830c84a3>] tipc_shutdown+0x553/0x880
     [<ffffffff825b4a3b>] SyS_shutdown+0x14b/0x170
     [<ffffffff8100334c>] do_syscall_64+0x19c/0x410
     [<ffffffff83295ca5>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    Code: 90 00 b4 0b 83 c7 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 4c 8d 6d e0 c7 40 04 00 00 00 f4 c7 40 08 f3 f3 f3 f3 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 c7 45 b4 00 00 00 00 <80> 3c 30 00 75 78 48 8d 7b 08 49 8d 75 c0 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00
    RIP  [<ffffffff830bb46b>] tipc_node_xmit_skb+0x6b/0x140
     RSP <ffff8800595bfce8>
    ---[ end trace 57b0484e351e71f1 ]---

I feel like we should maybe return -ENOMEM or -ENOBUFS, but I'm not sure
userspace is equipped to handle that. Anyway, this is better than a GPF
and looks somewhat consistent with other tipc_msg_create() callers.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-15 13:55:36 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 672ca65d9a tipc: fix variable dereference before NULL check
In commit cf6f7e1d51 ("tipc: dump monitor attributes"),
I dereferenced a pointer before checking if its valid.
This is reported by static check Smatch as:
net/tipc/monitor.c:733 tipc_nl_add_monitor_peer()
     warn: variable dereferenced before check 'mon' (see line 731)

In this commit, we check for a valid monitor before proceeding
with any other operation.

Fixes: cf6f7e1d51 ("tipc: dump monitor attributes")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-10 17:56:52 -07:00
Wei Yongjun 6b65bc2972 tipc: fix imbalance read_unlock_bh in __tipc_nl_add_monitor()
In the error handling case of nla_nest_start() failed read_unlock_bh()
is called  to unlock a lock that had not been taken yet. sparse warns
about the context imbalance as the following:

net/tipc/monitor.c:799:23: warning:
 context imbalance in '__tipc_nl_add_monitor' - different lock contexts for basic block

Fixes: cf6f7e1d51 ('tipc: dump monitor attributes')
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-30 20:38:22 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan cf6f7e1d51 tipc: dump monitor attributes
In this commit, we dump the monitor attributes when queried.
The link monitor attributes are separated into two kinds:
1. general attributes per bearer
2. specific attributes per node/peer
This style resembles the socket attributes and the nametable
publications per socket.

Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan ff0d3e78a6 tipc: add a function to get the bearer name
Introduce a new function to get the bearer name from
its id. This is used in subsequent commit.

Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan bf1035b2ff tipc: get monitor threshold for the cluster
In this commit, we add support to fetch the configured
cluster monitoring threshold.

Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 7b3f522964 tipc: make cluster size threshold for monitoring configurable
In this commit, we introduce support to configure the minimum
threshold to activate the new link monitoring algorithm.

Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan 9ff26e9fab tipc: introduce constants for tipc address validation
In this commit, we introduce defines for tipc address size,
offset and mask specification for Zone.Cluster.Node.
There is no functional change in this commit.

Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
David S. Miller de0ba9a0d8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Just several instances of overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-24 00:53:32 -04:00
Jon Paul Maloy 1fc07f3e15 tipc: reset all unicast links when broadcast send link fails
In test situations with many nodes and a heavily stressed system we have
observed that the transmission broadcast link may fail due to an
excessive number of retransmissions of the same packet. In such
situations we need to reset all unicast links to all peers, in order to
reset and re-synchronize the broadcast link.

In this commit, we add a new function tipc_bearer_reset_all() to be used
in such situations. The function scans across all bearers and resets all
their pertaining links.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-11 22:42:12 -07:00
Jon Paul Maloy a71eb72035 tipc: ensure correct broadcast send buffer release when peer is lost
After a new receiver peer has been added to the broadcast transmission
link, we allow immediate transmission of new broadcast packets, trusting
that the new peer will not accept the packets until it has received the
previously sent unicast broadcast initialiation message. In the same
way, the sender must not accept any acknowledges until it has itself
received the broadcast initialization from the peer, as well as
confirmation of the reception of its own initialization message.

Furthermore, when a receiver peer goes down, the sender has to produce
the missing acknowledges from the lost peer locally, in order ensure
correct release of the buffers that were expected to be acknowledged by
the said peer.

In a highly stressed system we have observed that contact with a peer
may come up and be lost before the above mentioned broadcast initial-
ization and confirmation have been received. This leads to the locally
produced acknowledges being rejected, and the non-acknowledged buffers
to linger in the broadcast link transmission queue until it fills up
and the link goes into permanent congestion.

In this commit, we remedy this by temporarily setting the corresponding
broadcast receive link state to ESTABLISHED and the 'bc_peer_is_up'
state to true before we issue the local acknowledges. This ensures that
those acknowledges will always be accepted. The mentioned state values
are restored immediately afterwards when the link is reset.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-11 22:42:12 -07:00
Jon Paul Maloy 2d18ac4ba7 tipc: extend broadcast link initialization criteria
At first contact between two nodes, an endpoint might sometimes have
time to send out a LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE packet before it has received
the broadcast initialization packet from the peer, i.e., before it has
received a valid broadcast packet number to add to the 'bc_ack' field
of the protocol message.

This means that the peer endpoint will receive a protocol packet with an
invalid broadcast acknowledge value of 0. Under unlucky circumstances
this may lead to the original, already received acknowledge value being
overwritten, so that the whole broadcast link goes stale after a while.

We fix this by delaying the setting of the link field 'bc_peer_is_up'
until we know that the peer really has received our own broadcast
initialization message. The latter is always sent out as the first
unicast message on a link, and always with seqeunce number 1. Because
of this, we only need to look for a non-zero unicast acknowledge value
in the arriving STATE messages, and once that is confirmed we know we
are safe and can set the mentioned field. Before this moment, we must
ignore all broadcast acknowledges from the peer.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-11 22:42:12 -07:00
David S. Miller 30d0844bdc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
	drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
	drivers/net/usb/r8152.c

All three conflicts were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-06 10:35:22 -07:00
Richard Alpe 55e77a3e82 tipc: fix nl compat regression for link statistics
Fix incorrect use of nla_strlcpy() where the first NLA_HDRLEN bytes
of the link name where left out.

Making the output of tipc-config -ls look something like:
Link statistics:
dcast-link
1:data0-1.1.2:data0
1:data0-1.1.3:data0

Also, for the record, the patch that introduce this regression
claims "Sending the whole object out can cause a leak". Which isn't
very likely as this is a compat layer, where the data we are parsing
is generated by us and we know the string to be NULL terminated. But
you can of course never be to secure.

Fixes: 5d2be1422e (tipc: fix an infoleak in tipc_nl_compat_link_dump)
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-01 16:47:38 -04:00
David S. Miller ee58b57100 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Several cases of overlapping changes, except the packet scheduler
conflicts which deal with the addition of the free list parameter
to qdisc_enqueue().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-30 05:03:36 -04:00
Richard Alpe bc3a334cc2 tipc: rename udp_port in struct udp_media_addr
Context implies that port in struct "udp_media_addr" is referring
to a UDP port.

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-29 05:17:37 -04:00
Richard Alpe e99429232e tipc: honor msg2addr return value
The UDP msg2addr function tipc_udp_msg2addr() can return -EINVAL which
prior to this patch was unhanded in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-29 05:17:37 -04:00
Amitoj Kaur Chawla 810bf11033 tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy
Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to
kmemdup.

The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
statement S;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
+  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
-  memcpy(to, from, size);

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-27 09:56:58 -04:00
Jon Paul Maloy 27777daa8b tipc: unclone unbundled buffers before forwarding
When extracting an individual message from a received "bundle" buffer,
we just create a clone of the base buffer, and adjust it to point into
the right position of the linearized data area of the latter. This works
well for regular message reception, but during periods of extremely high
load it may happen that an extracted buffer, e.g, a connection probe, is
reversed and forwarded through an external interface while the preceding
extracted message is still unhandled. When this happens, the header or
data area of the preceding message will be partially overwritten by a
MAC header, leading to unpredicatable consequences, such as a link
reset.

We now fix this by ensuring that the msg_reverse() function never
returns a cloned buffer, and that the returned buffer always contains
sufficient valid head and tail room to be forwarded.

Reported-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-22 16:33:35 -04:00
Jon Paul Maloy f1d048f24e tipc: fix socket timer deadlock
We sometimes observe a 'deadly embrace' type deadlock occurring
between mutually connected sockets on the same node. This happens
when the one-hour peer supervision timers happen to expire
simultaneously in both sockets.

The scenario is as follows:

CPU 1:                          CPU 2:
--------                        --------
tipc_sk_timeout(sk1)            tipc_sk_timeout(sk2)
  lock(sk1.slock)                 lock(sk2.slock)
  msg_create(probe)               msg_create(probe)
  unlock(sk1.slock)               unlock(sk2.slock)
  tipc_node_xmit_skb()            tipc_node_xmit_skb()
    tipc_node_xmit()                tipc_node_xmit()
      tipc_sk_rcv(sk2)                tipc_sk_rcv(sk1)
        lock(sk2.slock)                 lock((sk1.slock)
        filter_rcv()                    filter_rcv()
          tipc_sk_proto_rcv()             tipc_sk_proto_rcv()
            msg_create(probe_rsp)           msg_create(probe_rsp)
            tipc_sk_respond()               tipc_sk_respond()
              tipc_node_xmit_skb()            tipc_node_xmit_skb()
                tipc_node_xmit()                tipc_node_xmit()
                  tipc_sk_rcv(sk1)                tipc_sk_rcv(sk2)
                    lock((sk1.slock)                lock((sk2.slock)
                    ===> DEADLOCK                   ===> DEADLOCK

Further analysis reveals that there are three different locations in the
socket code where tipc_sk_respond() is called within the context of the
socket lock, with ensuing risk of similar deadlocks.

We now solve this by passing a buffer queue along with all upcalls where
sk_lock.slock may potentially be held. Response or rejected message
buffers are accumulated into this queue instead of being sent out
directly, and only sent once we know we are safely outside the slock
context.

Reported-by: GUNA <gbalasun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-17 21:38:10 -07:00
Dan Carpenter 0350cb48fb tipc: potential shift wrapping bug in map_set()
"up_map" is a u64 type but we're not using the high 32 bits.

Fixes: 35c55c9877 ('tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-17 21:26:03 -07:00
Ying Xue c91522f860 tipc: eliminate uninitialized variable warning
net/tipc/link.c: In function ‘tipc_link_timeout’:
net/tipc/link.c:744:28: warning: ‘mtyp’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]

Fixes: 42b18f605f ("tipc: refactor function tipc_link_timeout()")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15 21:47:23 -07:00
Ying Xue 66d95b6705 tipc: fix suspicious RCU usage
When run tipcTS&tipcTC test suite, the following complaint appears:

[   56.926168] ===============================
[   56.926169] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[   56.926171] 4.7.0-rc1+ #160 Not tainted
[   56.926173] -------------------------------
[   56.926174] net/tipc/bearer.c:408 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
[   56.926175]
[   56.926175] other info that might help us debug this:
[   56.926175]
[   56.926177]
[   56.926177] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[   56.926179] 3 locks held by swapper/4/0:
[   56.926180]  #0:  (((&req->timer))){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810e79b5>] call_timer_fn+0x5/0x340
[   56.926203]  #1:  (&(&req->lock)->rlock){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffffa000c29b>] disc_timeout+0x1b/0xd0 [tipc]
[   56.926212]  #2:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffffa00055e0>] tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0xb0/0x2e0 [tipc]
[   56.926218]
[   56.926218] stack backtrace:
[   56.926221] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc1+ #160
[   56.926222] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
[   56.926224]  0000000000000000 ffff880016803d28 ffffffff813c4423 ffff8800154252c0
[   56.926227]  0000000000000001 ffff880016803d58 ffffffff810b7512 ffff8800124d8120
[   56.926230]  ffff880013f8a160 ffff8800132b5ccc ffff8800124d8120 ffff880016803d88
[   56.926234] Call Trace:
[   56.926235]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff813c4423>] dump_stack+0x67/0x94
[   56.926250]  [<ffffffff810b7512>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe2/0x120
[   56.926256]  [<ffffffffa00051f1>] tipc_l2_send_msg+0x131/0x1c0 [tipc]
[   56.926261]  [<ffffffffa000567c>] tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0x14c/0x2e0 [tipc]
[   56.926266]  [<ffffffffa00055e0>] ? tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0xb0/0x2e0 [tipc]
[   56.926273]  [<ffffffffa000c280>] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
[   56.926278]  [<ffffffffa000c280>] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
[   56.926283]  [<ffffffffa000c2d6>] disc_timeout+0x56/0xd0 [tipc]
[   56.926288]  [<ffffffff810e7a68>] call_timer_fn+0xb8/0x340
[   56.926291]  [<ffffffff810e79b5>] ? call_timer_fn+0x5/0x340
[   56.926296]  [<ffffffffa000c280>] ? tipc_disc_init_msg+0x1f0/0x1f0 [tipc]
[   56.926300]  [<ffffffff810e8f4a>] run_timer_softirq+0x23a/0x390
[   56.926306]  [<ffffffff810f89ff>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x7f/0x130
[   56.926316]  [<ffffffff819727c3>] __do_softirq+0xc3/0x4a2
[   56.926323]  [<ffffffff8106ba5a>] irq_exit+0x8a/0xb0
[   56.926327]  [<ffffffff81972456>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0x60
[   56.926331]  [<ffffffff81970a49>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x89/0x90
[   56.926333]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff81027fda>] ? default_idle+0x2a/0x1a0
[   56.926340]  [<ffffffff81027fd8>] ? default_idle+0x28/0x1a0
[   56.926342]  [<ffffffff810289cf>] arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20
[   56.926345]  [<ffffffff810adf0f>] default_idle_call+0x2f/0x50
[   56.926347]  [<ffffffff810ae145>] cpu_startup_entry+0x215/0x3e0
[   56.926353]  [<ffffffff81040ad9>] start_secondary+0xf9/0x100

The warning appears as rtnl_dereference() is wrongly used in
tipc_l2_send_msg() under RCU read lock protection. Instead the proper
usage should be that rcu_dereference_rtnl() is called here.

Fixes: 5b7066c3dd ("tipc: stricter filtering of packets in bearer layer")
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15 21:47:23 -07:00
Jon Paul Maloy 35c55c9877 tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework
TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link
connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide
a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because
of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring in an N-node
cluster increases with a factor N on each node, while the overall
monitoring traffic through the network infrastructure increases at
a ~(N * (N - 1)) rate. Experience has shown that such clusters don't
scale well beyond ~100 nodes unless we significantly increase failure
discovery tolerance.

This commit introduces a framework and an algorithm that drastically
reduces this background load, while basically maintaining the original
failure detection times across the whole cluster. Using this algorithm,
background load will now grow at a rate of ~(2 * sqrt(N)) per node, and
at ~(2 * N * sqrt(N)) in traffic overhead. As an example, each node will
now have to actively monitor 38 neighbors in a 400-node cluster, instead
of as before 399.

This "Overlapping Ring Supervision Algorithm" is completely distributed
and employs no centralized or coordinated state. It goes as follows:

- Each node makes up a linearly ascending, circular list of all its N
  known neighbors, based on their TIPC node identity. This algorithm
  must be the same on all nodes.

- The node then selects the next M = sqrt(N) - 1 nodes downstream from
  itself in the list, and chooses to actively monitor those. This is
  called its "local monitoring domain".

- It creates a domain record describing the monitoring domain, and
  piggy-backs this in the data area of all neighbor monitoring messages
  (LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE) leaving that node. This means that all nodes in
  the cluster eventually (default within 400 ms) will learn about
  its monitoring domain.

- Whenever a node discovers a change in its local domain, e.g., a node
  has been added or has gone down, it creates and sends out a new
  version of its node record to inform all neighbors about the change.

- A node receiving a domain record from anybody outside its local domain
  matches this against its own list (which may not look the same), and
  chooses to not actively monitor those members of the received domain
  record that are also present in its own list. Instead, it relies on
  indications from the direct monitoring nodes if an indirectly
  monitored node has gone up or down. If a node is indicated lost, the
  receiving node temporarily activates its own direct monitoring towards
  that node in order to confirm, or not, that it is actually gone.

- Since each node is actively monitoring sqrt(N) downstream neighbors,
  each node is also actively monitored by the same number of upstream
  neighbors. This means that all non-direct monitoring nodes normally
  will receive sqrt(N) indications that a node is gone.

- A major drawback with ring monitoring is how it handles failures that
  cause massive network partitionings. If both a lost node and all its
  direct monitoring neighbors are inside the lost partition, the nodes in
  the remaining partition will never receive indications about the loss.
  To overcome this, each node also chooses to actively monitor some
  nodes outside its local domain. Those nodes are called remote domain
  "heads", and are selected in such a way that no node in the cluster
  will be more than two direct monitoring hops away. Because of this,
  each node, apart from monitoring the member of its local domain, will
  also typically monitor sqrt(N) remote head nodes.

- As an optimization, local list status, domain status and domain
  records are marked with a generation number. This saves senders from
  unnecessarily conveying  unaltered domain records, and receivers from
  performing unneeded re-adaptations of their node monitoring list, such
  as re-assigning domain heads.

- As a measure of caution we have added the possibility to disable the
  new algorithm through configuration. We do this by keeping a threshold
  value for the cluster size; a cluster that grows beyond this value
  will switch from full-mesh to ring monitoring, and vice versa when
  it shrinks below the value. This means that if the threshold is set to
  a value larger than any anticipated cluster size (default size is 32)
  the new algorithm is effectively disabled. A patch set for altering the
  threshold value and for listing the table contents will follow shortly.

- This change is fully backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15 14:06:28 -07:00