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batman-adv: Calculate correct size for merged packets
authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:31 +0000 (22:02 +0000)
committerSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:57:08 +0000 (14:57 +0100)
commitae361ce19fa135035c6b83ac1f07090b72fd4b8f
tree00410704b2dd5f0d7310f5cb9796385d7e8b7e91
parent5c77d8bb8aeb4ec6804b6c32061109ba2ea6988d
batman-adv: Calculate correct size for merged packets

The routing algorithm must be able to decide if a fragment can be merged with
the missing part and still be passed to a forwarding interface. The fragments
can only differ by one byte in case that the original payload had an uneven
length. In that situation the sender has to inform all possible receivers that
the tail is one byte longer using the flag UNI_FRAG_LARGETAIL.

The combination of UNI_FRAG_LARGETAIL and UNI_FRAG_HEAD flag makes it possible
to calculate the correct length for even and uneven sized payloads.

The original formula missed to add the unicast header at all and forgot to
remove the fragment header of the second fragment. This made the results highly
unreliable and only useful for machines with large differences between the
configured MTUs.

Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
net/batman-adv/packet.h
net/batman-adv/routing.c
net/batman-adv/unicast.c
net/batman-adv/unicast.h