This exposes the parts of the reassembly buffer to be usable as context
as proposed in #8511.
I only exposed *parts of* for two reasons:
1. I don't need to expose further types (like `rbuf_int_t`), that are
not of interest outside of fragmentation.
2. This allows for an easy future extension for the virtual reassembly
buffer as proposed in [[1]].
This makes this change a little bit more involved, because instead of
just renaming the type, I also need to add the usage of the `super`
member, but I think in the end this little preparation work will be
beneficial in the future.
[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-watteyne-6lo-minimal-fragment-01#section-3
If the payload length is zero and the next header field is not set to
NONXT, GNRC will interpret the current header as the payload because the
first snip is always interpreted as the payload. This can lead to loops
and or crashes.
When the payload length of an encapsulated IPv6 packet is 0, the
`_receive` function of IPv6 can be given a NULL pointer, causing the
IPv6 header checker to crash because of a NULL pointer dereference.
With the previous fix, we only have to register addresses that are not
VALID yet on reception of router advertisements. This removes the need
for the hacky `GNRC_NETIF_FLAGS_6LO_ADDRS_REG` flag that was only
introduced to prevent unnecessary re-registration.
The whole address registration looses its point if all addresses are
marked valid from the get-go. With this fix non-link-local addresses
are first marked TENTATIVE and only after successful registration
marked as VALID. Link-local addresses are assumed to always be VALID.
[RFC6775] only talks of *routers* processing router advertisements,
with regards of discarding them if they do not contain an ABRO.
Additionally, this change makes configuration of tests setups a lot
easier, where one note is a router distributing a prefix and the other
is a host to be configured with the RA. Just do the following on the
router:
```
> ifconfig <if> add <GUA>
> ifconfig <if> rtr_adv
```
e voilà! In current master both nodes would have needed to be compiled
with `GNRC_IPV6_NIB_CONF_MULTIHOP_P6C=0`.
[RFC6775]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6775#section-8.1.3
At the moment ping is crashing if one pings the loopback address.
This was caused in #8214 when we moved interfaces from `kernel_pid_t`
ID to pointer-based handling, since loopback doesn't evaluate to such
an interface.
This fix
* assures that the periodicity of the final router advertisements is
kept (so that no administrative change e.g. adding prefixes to the
prefix list causes additional RAs outside the rate limitation)
* removes all administrative options (PIO, ABRO, 6CO) from final router
advertisements (with router lifetime == 0)
I applied the following terminology and changed the wording in the doc
accordingly:
* must not: If the parameter is of the value it *must not* be it either
hits an assert or crashes the system.
* may not: The value can be that value, but the function will return an
error.
This renames the following functions
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_addr_add()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_addr_remove()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_group_join()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_group_leave()`
by appending the suffix `_internal`.
\## Reasoning
I'd like to provide a helper function for the *public* equivalent using
`gnrc_netapi_set()`, and those names are to nice to not be taken for
those.
\## Procedure
I used a combination of `git grep` and `sed` to do this and fixed the
alignment in the result of some cases by hand.
```sh
git grep --name-only "\<gnrc_netif_ipv6_\(addr\|group\)_\(add\|remove\|join\|leave\)\>" | \
xargs sed -i 's/\<gnrc_netif_ipv6_\(addr\|group\)_\(add\|remove\|join\|leave\)/\0_internal/g'
```
When a neighbor becomes UNREACHABLE which causes neighbor solicitations
to be send only up to every minute. If the medium is very busy this can
easily get lost, basically causing the neighbor never to be reachable
again from the perspective of the sending node. To fix this the backoff
is reduced to its start value, every time a packet is sent to that
neighbor.
This assertion doesn't make any sense. The function is called by
_copy_and_handle_aro() on a router which causes `nce` to be NULL
(because there is no NCE known yet) and then the function called
directly after (_reg_addr_upstream()) checks if `nce` might be NULL and
creates an NCE if necessary.