The batadv debugfs requires large memory blocks to write the text debug
tables. This is inefficient for large tables like the global translation
table or the originators table.
The memory requirement can be reduced by using netlink. It copies smaller
packets in a binary format to the userspace program. gluon-status-page-api
can therefore parse larger originator tables without causing an OOM on
systems which are tight on memory.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
introduce function to recurse down to the lowest layer-2 interface
corresponding to a given interface.
also re-introduce some of the previously removed input validation plus
some more to protect against glob and path based exploits.
Now that the status page api has been rewritten in C CPU load and memory
usage is much lower. Also, nodes with both ibss and 11s mesh and dual
band wifi may require up to 9 connections for a single client, thus the
previous limit of 12 seemed a little low.
