Instead of retrieving a pointer with NETOPT_STATS, retrieve the current
data. This avoids data corruptions when reading from one thread (e.g.
the thread running the shell (ifconfig command)) while another thread
is updating it (e.g. the netif thread).
The issue affects all boards, as users typically expect the count of
TX packets and the number of TX bytes to refer to the same state. For
16 bit and 8 bit platforms even a single netstat entry can read back
corrupted.
This fixes the issue by just copying the whole netstat_t struct over
without requiring explicit locking on the user side. A multi-threaded
network stack still needs to synchronize the thread responding to
netopt_get with the thread writing to the netstat_t structure, but that
is an implementation detail no relevant to the user of the API.
Replace direct accesses to sched_active_thread and sched_active_pid with
the helper functions thread_getpid() and thread_get_active(). This serves
two purposes:
1. It makes accidental writes to those variable from outside core less likely.
2. Casting off the volatile qualifier is now well contained to those two
functions
When the destination address is the loopback address (`::1`) in GNRC
the selected network interface typically is `NULL`, as with GNRC no
loopback interface de facto exists. So the assertion when checking if
the source address is valid if `netif != NULL` fails on that check.
This change fixes that issue by checking if the destination address is
the loopback address, before checking the validity of the source
address.
We want to check if the interface is an interface requiring the 6Lo
adaptation layer, not if it is a 6LN according to RFC 6775 [[1]].
[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6775#section-2
When writing to the IPv6 header the implementation currently doesn't
take the packet with the (potentially) duplicated header, but the
packet with the original one, which leads to the packet sent and then
released in `gnrc_netif_ethernet.c` first and then accessed again in
further iterations of the "writing to the IPv6 header" loop, which
causes access to an invalid pointer, causing a crash.
Fixes#11980
While it is correct to not use an invalid address as a source address,
it is incorrect to assume that addresses not assigned to the interface
(`idx == -1` in the respective piece of code) are invalid: Other than
classic forwarding via a FIB, forwarded packets utilizing a IPv6
routing header will pass this check, like any other packet sent by this
node. The source address for these is not on the given node, so e.g.
source routing is not possible at the moment.
If an address was pre-configured by the upper layer its validity is
currently ignored. It is neither checked if the address is on the
interface at all nor is it checked if it is valid.
This change provides a fix for that by checking both facts.
When reworking the reception of IPv6 packets I reset a previously set
`ipv6` snip as follows when the IPv6 extension handler returns a
packet (see first hunk of this commit):
```C
ipv6 = pkt->next->next
```
With `gnrc_ipv6_ext` this makes *somewhat* sense, `pkt->next` was
previously equal to `ipv6` and after the function call `pkt->next`
is the marked extension header, while `pkt->next->next` is the IPv6
header. However, since `ipv6` is already write-protected i.e.
`ipv6->users == 1` (see ll. 665-675), any additional call of
`gnrc_pktbuf_start_write()` [won't][start-write-doc] duplicate the
packet. In fact, the only `gnrc_pktbuf_start_write()` in
`gnrc_ipv6_ext` is used to send the *result* to the subscribers of that
extension header type, leaving the original packet unchanged for the
caller. As such `ipv6` remains the pointer to the IPv6 header whether
we set it in the line above or not. So we actually don't need that
line.
However, the extension header handling also returns a packet when
`gnrc_ipv6_ext` is not compiled in. In that case it is just a dummy
define that returns the packet you give provide it which means that
this still holds true: `pkt->next == ipv6`.
So setting `ipv6` in this case is actually harmful, as `ipv6` now
points to the NETIF header [following the IPv6 header][pkt-structure]
in the packet and this causes the `user` counter of that NETIF header
`hdr` to be decremented if `hdr->users > 1` in the write-protection I
removed in hunk 2 of this commit:
```C
/* pkt might not be writable yet, if header was given above */
ipv6 = gnrc_pktbuf_start_write(ipv6);
if (ipv6 == NULL) {
DEBUG("ipv6: unable to get write access to packet: dropping it\n");
gnrc_pktbuf_release(pkt);
return;
}
```
But as we already established, `ipv6->users` is already 1, so we don't
actually need the write protection here either.
Since the packet stays unchanged after the `ipv6` snip, we also don't
need to re-search for `netif_hdr` after the other two lines are
removed.
[start-write-doc]: https://doc.riot-os.org/group__net__gnrc__pktbuf.html#ga640418467294ae3d408c109ab27bd617
[pkt-structure]: https://doc.riot-os.org/group__net__gnrc__pkt.html#ga278e783e56a5ee6f1bd7b81077ed82a7
Since the recursion into `gnrc_ipv6_demux()` was removed in
`gnrc_ipv6_ext`, `gnrc_ipv6.c` is the only user of this function,
so it can be made private. It was only made public so it can be used
from `gnrc_ipv6_ext`.
Since with #10233 we now assume IPv6 packets always to not be
pre-parsed, we can iterate over the extension headers by gradually
"eating" them away. This allows us to move the iteration over them
out of `gnrc_ipv6_ext_demux()` and into `gnrc_ipv6_demux()`.
By moving the iteration over all extension headers out of
`gnrc_ipv6_ext_demux()` we also can
1. simplify the extension header handling a lot, as it now
just a loop inside `gnrc_ipv6_demux()`,
2. remove the recursion to `gnrc_ipv6_demux()` within
`gnrc_ipv6_ext_demux()`.
Since the packet is now guaranteed to be preparsed, the currently
handled IPv6 header will always be in the first snip. Because of this
the packet parser can't get confused anymore which IPv6 header is the
one to be handled so we don't need to remove the more outer ones.
Because of this we can just use the normal packet dispatching (which is
already used by other `GNRC_NETTYPE_*`-known protocol numbers such as
UDP).
This also reverts d54ac38f84.
