[PATCH net 04/11] batman-adv: tvlv: reject oversized TVLV packets
From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Date: 2026-05-20 11:54:47
Also in:
batman
Subsystem:
batman advanced, the rest · Maintainers:
Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich, Antonio Quartulli, Sven Eckelmann, Linus Torvalds
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append() builds a TVLV packet section from
the tvlv.container_list. The total size of this section is computed by
batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(), which sums the sizes of all registered
containers.
The return type and accumulator in batadv_tvlv_container_list_size() were
u16. If the accumulated size exceeds U16_MAX, the value wraps around,
causing the subsequent allocation in batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append()
to be undersized. The memcpy-style copy that follows would then write
beyond the end of the allocated buffer, corrupting kernel memory.
Fix this by widening the return type of batadv_tvlv_container_list_size()
to size_t. In batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append(), check the computed length
against U16_MAX before proceeding, and bail out as if the allocation had
failed when the limit is exceeded.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: ef26157747d4 ("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <redacted>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <redacted>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <redacted>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
index 46ed61dbf0879..cc6ac580c6208 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/if_ether.h> #include <linux/kref.h> +#include <linux/limits.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/lockdep.h> #include <linux/netdevice.h>
@@ -160,10 +161,10 @@ batadv_tvlv_container_get(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, u8 type, u8 version) * * Return: size of all currently registered tvlv containers in bytes. */ -static u16 batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv) +static size_t batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv) { struct batadv_tvlv_container *tvlv; - u16 tvlv_len = 0; + size_t tvlv_len = 0; lockdep_assert_held(&bat_priv->tvlv.container_list_lock);
@@ -316,13 +317,17 @@ int batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, { struct batadv_tvlv_container *tvlv; struct batadv_tvlv_hdr *tvlv_hdr; - u16 tvlv_value_len; + size_t tvlv_value_len; void *tvlv_value; int tvlv_len_ret; bool ret; spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->tvlv.container_list_lock); tvlv_value_len = batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(bat_priv); + if (tvlv_value_len > U16_MAX) { + tvlv_len_ret = -E2BIG; + goto end; + } ret = batadv_tvlv_realloc_packet_buff(packet_buff, packet_buff_len, packet_min_len, tvlv_value_len);
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