Make UTCP retranmissions trigger PMTU probes immediately.
If there are network problems while data is being transferred over a
channel, we want to react to this as soon as possible. Set the retranmission
callback to trigger the next PMTU probe immediately if there as none in
progress.
Allow meshlink_open() to be called with a NULL name.
This will use the name used last time the MeshLink instance was initialized.
If there is no initialized instance at the given confbase, it will return
an error.
Opening an instance with a different name than the one in the configuration
files will now also result in an error.
When resetting timers that use CLOCK_MONOTONIC, use a negative value.
CLOCK_MONOTONIC might be implemented as the time since the CPU booted, so
if MeshLink starts soon after booting, setting timers to "0" might not
actually be far enough in the past to trigger a timeout.
This has almost no effect in practice, since most timeouts are a minute or
less, but it might affect running tests in virtual machines.
These block for a limited amount of time, preventing lookups from taking
too long. Because these requests can be done without the main MeshLink
thread running, we don't use the request queue, but instead spawn a
thread for each blocking request.
Guus Sliepen [Thu, 23 May 2019 21:02:43 +0000 (23:02 +0200)]
Add an asynchronous DNS thread.
Add a thread dedicated to making DNS lookups. There are two queues, one
for pending DNS requests and one for done DNS requests. The async DNS
thread reads from the pending request queue, checks for each request if
the deadline has not been met yet, and if so calls getaddrinfo(). Once
the result is obtained, it adds that to the done request queue and
signals the main meshlink thread, which will then call the callback
function associated with the DNS request.
Update UTCP to support fragmenting packets on UDP style channels.
This allows the application to send packets of arbitrary size (up to 64 kiB)
without worrying about the path MTU to the destination node, which might
vary, especially at the start of a connection.
If the application doesn't want packets to fragment, it should use
meshlink_channel_get_mss() to query the maximum size for unfragmented
packets.
Roop [Tue, 4 Feb 2020 10:46:29 +0000 (16:16 +0530)]
Add meshlink_get_all_nodes_by_last_reachable API, meshlink_get_node_reachability API and its test vectors
MeshLink now keeps track of when a node was last reachable. This can be
used by an application to detect nodes that were never reachable or which
have not been reachable for a certain amount of time.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:52:46 +0000 (22:52 +0100)]
Reduce how often we have to poll the packet queue.
Packets are moved to the MeshLink thread via the packet queue. However,
each packet required a trigger byte to be sent to the event loop, requiring
more calls to select() than necessary. Now we make event loop signals level
triggered, and dequeue all enqueued packets at once.
This also adds debug log statements for the packet queue.
Guus Sliepen [Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:42:33 +0000 (22:42 +0100)]
Add all recent addresses resolved from a hostname in meshlink_invite().
When a canonical hostname or an invitation address resolves to multiple
numeric addresses, add all of them as recent addresses for ourself, so
they are all part of the host config file we send to the invitee.
Guus Sliepen [Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:37:28 +0000 (22:37 +0100)]
Update the invite-join test.
- Check that duplicate addresses get culled correctly.
- Check that we can add lots of extra invitation addresses, and that
they are in the expected order in the invitation URL.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 6 Mar 2020 23:19:57 +0000 (00:19 +0100)]
Handle not being able to bind to the configured port at startup.
When starting a MeshLink node that has already been configured to run on a
certain port, but that port is in use (for one or more of the supported
address families), it would either ignore some address families, or would
try to bind to port 0 if all address families failed. However, this is
problematic, because it makes discovery and invitation URL generation much
harder.
Fix this by checking if any port binding fails for a supported address
family, and if so, try to find another port that does support binding on
all address families. If it fails to find any available port, it will fall
back to binding to port 0, so that outgoing connections are still possible.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 6 Mar 2020 22:24:49 +0000 (23:24 +0100)]
Don't abort on empty lines in receive_request().
Remove the assertion that lines are not empty, since this could lead to
a DoS attack. Empty lines are already handled correctly by the rest of
the logic in receive_request().
This adds a function to add one or more application-controlled address and
port combinations to invitation URLs. It is meant to replace
meshlink_add_address(), which is too limited because it only allows one
address to be set, and doesn't allow a different port number to be set.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:09:11 +0000 (20:09 +0100)]
Avoid ports that are in use by not all address families.
It could happen that a port is bound by another application, but only
for some of the supported address families (ie, only IPv4 but not IPv6).
We don't want MeshLink to then bind to the other address familie(s), but
rather have it try another port altogether.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:25:52 +0000 (19:25 +0100)]
Further improve try_bind().
Make try_bind() do the same checks as add_listen_address() does: try to
create both a TCP and UDP socket on a given port for all address
families. If one address family succeeds for both TCP and UDP, consider
this a valid port.
Guus Sliepen [Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:39:48 +0000 (20:39 +0100)]
Fix logic in try_bind().
Fix the check for successful socket creation. Also make sure we only
return success if we can bind to IPv4 and IPv6, but ignore other
network protocols.
Guus Sliepen [Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:28:24 +0000 (22:28 +0100)]
Make the join commit order configurable.
By default, when an invitee joins a mesh, it will commit its configuration
to disk first, then the inviter. This adds a function to reverse that order.
Guus Sliepen [Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:37:33 +0000 (21:37 +0100)]
Move join state out of meshlink_handle_t, and ensure proper cleanup on errors.
Move the state we keep when calling meshlink_join() out of meshlink_handle_t
and just put it on the stack of meshlink_join(). Also make sure we properly
release allocated resources in all error conditions during a join.
Guus Sliepen [Sat, 8 Feb 2020 13:55:21 +0000 (14:55 +0100)]
Fall back to getifaddrs() to get an interface address if there is no default route.
When generating invitations, we try to find a suitable local interface
address by faking an outgoing connection to the Internet. However,
that doesn't work if there is no default route. In this case, fall back
to using getifaddrs() if that function is available, and filter out any
link-local and loopback addresses.
Guus Sliepen [Thu, 6 Feb 2020 20:34:43 +0000 (21:34 +0100)]
Use bind() to check if a local address is still valid.
Some platforms don't support getifaddrs(). We use this to check if the
local address of a socket is still available on any network interface.
Instead, try to bind() a new socket to the same address (but port 0) as
existing sockets. If it returns EADDRNOTAVAIL, we know that this address
is no longer valid.
Guus Sliepen [Mon, 3 Feb 2020 16:43:50 +0000 (17:43 +0100)]
Clear reachability times in host config files received during a join.
When a node joins an existing mesh, it gets passed one or more host config
files from the inviter. However, these might contain non-zero reachability
times, but the invitee has never seen those nodes, so clear them before
storing the host config files.
Guus Sliepen [Mon, 3 Feb 2020 16:03:07 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
Prevent meshlink_errno from being set incorrectly by meshlink_invite()
We called a public API function inside meshlink_invite() to check that we
don't try to invite a node that's already known. That causes it to set
meshlink_errno to MESHLINK_ENOENT. Fix this by calling lookup_node()
instead.
Guus Sliepen [Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:28:25 +0000 (09:28 +0100)]
Fix potential segmentation fault on iOS.
The PONG handler could call freeaddrinfo() on a struct that was not
allocated with getaddrinfo(). On most platforms this apparently works
fine, but on iOS it will try to free memory that wasn't allocated. Fix
this by moving the code to reset an outgoing_t to a separate function,
and calling that from the PONG handler.
Guus Sliepen [Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:07:35 +0000 (15:07 +0100)]
Only let mesh->self be reachable when the mesh is started.
This ensures meshlink_node_get_reachability(mesh->self) returns true only
if the mesh has been started. It also handles reachability of self in
graph.c just like any other node. This means there will now also be a
node status callback generated when the mesh is started and stopped.
Guus Sliepen [Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:45:09 +0000 (00:45 +0100)]
Add meshlink_get_node_reachability().
This function returns the current state of a node's reachability, as
well as the last time the node became reachable and the last time it
became unreachable.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:58:29 +0000 (22:58 +0100)]
Remember the address used when connecting to an inviting node.
The inviter sends us its own host config file, which should be populated
with its known addresses. However, if a symbolic hostname is in the
invitation URL and it can resolve to multiple IP addresses, or if the IP
address associated with it is currently different from when the invitation
was generated, the address used to connect to the inviter might not be
present in its host config file. This could cause the invitation to succeed,
but then the nodes would fail to make a regular MeshLink connection.
Guus Sliepen [Fri, 6 Dec 2019 20:47:11 +0000 (21:47 +0100)]
Don't add duplicates to the list of recently seen addresses.
Duplicate addresses would be appended to the list, and could push out other
addresses. If the address already exists, only move it to the top if it is
not already there.
Also don't force an immediate write of the host config file when trying to
add an address that already exists.
Guus Sliepen [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 22:56:10 +0000 (23:56 +0100)]
Add meshlink_get_all_nodes_by_last_reachable().
MeshLink now keeps track of when a node was last reachable. This can be
used by an application to detect nodes that were never reachable or which
have not been reachable for a certain amount of time.
Guus Sliepen [Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:24:05 +0000 (22:24 +0100)]
Sync the base configuration directory at the end of meshlink_join().
While joining a mesh, we create a new current/ subdirectory. While the
contents were already synced to disk, we need to ensure the subdirectory
itself is also synced before returning.
Guus Sliepen [Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:48:02 +0000 (21:48 +0100)]
Fix logic error preventing fast update of reflexive address.
When we are trying to communicate with peers that don't know our
reflexive address, and we just learned our own one, we want to inform
those peers of it immediately, so they can send PMTU probes to the right
address. A logic error prevented this from happening in the common case.
Guus Sliepen [Sat, 9 Nov 2019 16:57:55 +0000 (17:57 +0100)]
Fix __warn_unused_result__, add more of it and fix the resulting warnings.
Due to a bug in the autoconf test for function attributes, we were always
disabling __warn_unused_result__. Fix this, and add this function attribute
to a lot more functions whose results are definitely important.
This change makes it clear where we ignore the results of a function that
might fail. The proper fix in most cases is to propagate the result to the
caller. For meshlink_blacklist() and meshlink_whitelist(), we were not
return an error condition, even if we might fail to commit the blacklist
operation to permanent storage. So we now make these functions return a
bool.