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    batman-adv: fix packet loss for broadcasted DHCP packets to a server · a752c0a4
    Linus Lüssing authored
    DHCP connectivity issues can currently occur if the following conditions
    are met:
    
    1) A DHCP packet from a client to a server
    2) This packet has a multicast destination
    3) This destination has a matching entry in the translation table
       (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF for IPv4, 33:33:00:01:00:02/33:33:00:01:00:03
        for IPv6)
    4) The orig-node determined by TT for the multicast destination
       does not match the orig-node determined by best-gateway-selection
    
    In this case the DHCP packet will be dropped.
    
    The "gateway-out-of-range" check is supposed to only be applied to
    unicasted DHCP packets to a specific DHCP server.
    
    In that case dropping the the unicasted frame forces the client to
    retry via a broadcasted one, but now directed to the new best
    gateway.
    
    A DHCP packet with broadcast/multicast destination is already ensured to
    always be delivered to the best gateway. Dropping a multicasted
    DHCP packet here will only prevent completing DHCP as there is no
    other fallback.
    
    So far, it seems the unicast check was implicitly performed by
    expecting the batadv_transtable_search() to return NULL for multicast
    destinations. However, a multicast address could have always ended up in
    the translation table and in fact is now common.
    
    To fix this potential loss of a DHCP client-to-server packet to a
    multicast address this patch adds an explicit multicast destination
    check to reliably bail out of the gateway-out-of-range check for such
    destinations.
    
    The issue and fix were tested in the following three node setup:
    
    - Line topology, A-B-C
    - A: gateway client, DHCP client
    - B: gateway server, hop-penalty increased: 30->60, DHCP server
    - C: gateway server, code modifications to announce FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
    
    Without this patch, A would never transmit its DHCP Discover packet
    due to an always "out-of-range" condition. With this patch,
    a full DHCP handshake between A and B was possible again.
    
    Fixes: be7af5cf ("batman-adv: refactoring gateway handling code")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
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