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From: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:19:41 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729131941.10254-1-baul.lee@xbow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260726062518.43774-1-baul.lee@xbow.com>

br_mrp_alloc_test_skb() builds MRP test frames on an skb from
dev_alloc_skb(), which does not clear the linear data area.  On the MRA
ring-role branch the sub-option TLV header is appended with

	sub_tlv = skb_put(skb, sizeof(*sub_tlv));
	sub_tlv->type = BR_MRP_SUB_TLV_HEADER_TEST_AUTO_MGR;

so sub_tlv->length is never written, and the two trailing alignment bytes
are appended with a bare skb_put() that does not clear them either.  The
neighbouring oui and sub_opt regions are explicitly zeroed, so three
uninitialised bytes are left in every MRA MRP_Test frame that goes out.

Put the sub-option TLV header and the alignment padding in a single
skb_put_zero(), which clears both.  The AUTO_MGR sub-TLV carries no
payload, so the zeroed length field is already the value it should have.

Fixes: f7458934b079 ("net: bridge: mrp: Update the Test frames for MRA")
Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
---
v2:
 - fold the alignment padding into a single skb_put_zero() for the
   sub-option TLV header, dropping the explicit length assignment and the
   second skb_put() (Nikolay Aleksandrov)
 - drop the paragraph about observing the leak, and the Reported-by tags

Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260726062518.43774-1-baul.lee@xbow.com/

 net/bridge/br_mrp.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mrp.c b/net/bridge/br_mrp.c
index 179d2470b..ef16d0703 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_mrp.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_mrp.c
@@ -224,11 +224,9 @@ static struct sk_buff *br_mrp_alloc_test_skb(struct br_mrp *mrp,
 		sub_opt = skb_put(skb, sizeof(*sub_opt));
 		memset(sub_opt, 0x0, sizeof(*sub_opt));
 
-		sub_tlv = skb_put(skb, sizeof(*sub_tlv));
-		sub_tlv->type = BR_MRP_SUB_TLV_HEADER_TEST_AUTO_MGR;
-
 		/* 32 bit alligment shall be ensured therefore add 2 bytes */
-		skb_put(skb, MRP_OPT_PADDING);
+		sub_tlv = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(*sub_tlv) + MRP_OPT_PADDING);
+		sub_tlv->type = BR_MRP_SUB_TLV_HEADER_TEST_AUTO_MGR;
 	}
 
 	br_mrp_skb_tlv(skb, BR_MRP_TLV_HEADER_END, 0x0);
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-29 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-26  6:25 [PATCH net] net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire Baul Lee
2026-07-26  9:54 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-07-26 17:00   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-07-29 13:19 ` Baul Lee [this message]
2026-07-30 15:27   ` [PATCH net v2] " Nikolay Aleksandrov

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