From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/6] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:16:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111101091604.GD20215@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111031001221.GF10726@pandem0nium>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 01:12:21AM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> This patch fails checkpatch.pl --strict.
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 09:56:01AM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > +bool arp_snoop_outgoing_request(struct bat_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > [...]
> > + arp_neigh_update(bat_priv, ip_src, hw_src);
> > +
> > + n = neigh_lookup(&arp_tbl, &ip_dst, primary_if->soft_iface);
> > + /* check if it is a valid neigh entry */
> > + if (n && (n->nud_state & NUD_CONNECTED)) {
> > + skb_new = arp_create(ARPOP_REPLY, ETH_P_ARP, ip_src,
> > + primary_if->soft_iface, ip_dst, hw_src, n->ha,
> > + hw_src);
> > + unicast_send_skb(skb_new, bat_priv);
> > + bat_dbg(DBG_ARP, bat_priv, "ARP request replied locally\n");
>
> This function is hooked up in the tx patch, why do we send the unicast reply to
> the mesh? Shouldn't it be sent on the soft interface instead? I don't really understand this one ...
You are right. As we have already discussed on IRC, I should use netif_rx()
directly here (to deliver the packet to the soft_iface).
> > if (is_my_mac(unicast_packet->dest)) {
> > interface_rx(recv_if->soft_iface, skb, recv_if, hdr_size);
> > +
> > return NET_RX_SUCCESS;
> > }
> >
>
> This added newline is useless.
Yeah :D
Thanks,
--
Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-30 8:55 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/6] DAT: Distributed ARP Table Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-30 8:55 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/6] batman-adv: implement an helper function to forge unicast packets Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-31 0:05 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-11-01 9:12 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-30 8:55 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/6] batman-adv: add a new log level for DAT-ARP debugging Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-30 8:55 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/6] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create the DHT helper functions Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-31 0:08 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-10-30 8:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/6] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add ARP parsing functions Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-31 0:10 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-11-01 9:14 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-30 8:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/6] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-30 9:18 ` Sven Eckelmann
2011-10-30 9:29 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-31 0:12 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-11-01 9:16 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2011-10-30 8:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 6/6] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - increase default soft_iface ARP table timeout Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-31 0:03 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/6] DAT: Distributed ARP Table Simon Wunderlich
2011-10-31 9:26 ` Martin Hundebøll
2011-10-31 9:42 ` Marek Lindner
2011-10-31 9:48 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-11-01 9:16 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-31 18:53 ` Gus Wirth
2011-10-31 23:11 ` Simon Wunderlich
2011-11-01 9:10 ` Antonio Quartulli
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