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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
To: David Corvaglia <david@corvaglia.dev>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	"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>,
	bridge@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: mrp: fix MRP_Test option TLV length
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:51:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <amTNacya_ZXLjoDn@penguin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260724051202.61946-1-david@corvaglia.dev>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 05:12:02AM +0000, David Corvaglia wrote:
> oui is a pointer, so sizeof(oui) is the pointer size. The MRA
> Option TLV thus advertises a wrong length (15 vs 10 on x86_64),
> causing misparsing of the frame on peers. Fix is to replace
> with sizeof(*oui).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Corvaglia <david@corvaglia.dev>
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_mrp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mrp.c b/net/bridge/br_mrp.c
> index 3f7126a7d720..179d2470b724 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_mrp.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_mrp.c
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *br_mrp_alloc_test_skb(struct br_mrp *mrp,
>  		struct br_mrp_oui_hdr *oui = NULL;
>  		u8 length;
>  
> -		length = sizeof(*sub_opt) + sizeof(*sub_tlv) + sizeof(oui) +
> +		length = sizeof(*sub_opt) + sizeof(*sub_tlv) + sizeof(*oui) +
>  			MRP_OPT_PADDING;
>  		br_mrp_skb_tlv(skb, BR_MRP_TLV_HEADER_OPTION, length);
>  
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 

This is clearly a fix and looks like it is needed for proper parsing.
I think it should be targeted at -net with a fixes tag, probably
f7458934b0791 ("net: bridge: mrp: Update the Test frames for MRA")

Cheers,
 Nik

      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-25 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-24  5:12 [PATCH net-next] bridge: mrp: fix MRP_Test option TLV length David Corvaglia
2026-07-25 14:51 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]

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