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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org>,
	 Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>,
	 Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.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>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ao Zhou <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>,
	 Haoze Xie <royenheart@gmail.com>,
	Jiexun Wang <wangjiexun2025@gmail.com>,
	 Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>,
	Luxing Yin <tr0jan@lzu.edu.cn>,  Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>,
	Ruide Cao <caoruide123@gmail.com>,  Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>,
	Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>,  Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>,
	 stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH batadv 6/8] batman-adv: tt: fix TOCTOU race for reported vlans
Date: Sun, 03 May 2026 14:22:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260503-fixes-followup-v1-6-4313278918d3@narfation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260503-fixes-followup-v1-0-4313278918d3@narfation.org>

The local TT based TVLV is generated by first checking the number of VLANs
which have at least one TT entry. A new buffer with the correct size for
the VLANs is then allocated. Only then, the list of VLANs s used to fill
the VLAN entries in the buffer. During this time, the meshif_vlan_list_lock
is held. But the actual number of TT entries of each VLAN can still
increase during this time - just not the number of VLANs in the list.

But the prefilter used in the buffer size calculation might still cause an
increase of the number of VLANs which need to be stored. Simply because a
VLAN might now suddenly have at least one entry when it had none in the
pre-alloc check - and then needs to occupy space which was not allocated.

It is better to overestimate the buffer size at the beginning and then fill
the buffer only with the VLANs which are not empty.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 16116dac2339 ("batman-adv: prevent TT request storms by not sending inconsistent TT TLVLs")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
---
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
index 06548dae1039..f5b9143c803a 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -887,11 +887,8 @@ batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 	spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->meshif_vlan_list_lock);
 	hlist_for_each_entry(vlan, &bat_priv->meshif_vlan_list, list) {
 		vlan_entries = atomic_read(&vlan->tt.num_entries);
-		if (vlan_entries < 1)
-			continue;
-
-		num_vlan++;
 		total_entries += vlan_entries;
+		num_vlan++;
 	}
 
 	change_offset = struct_size(*tt_data, vlan_data, num_vlan);
@@ -913,9 +910,9 @@ batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 
 	(*tt_data)->flags = BATADV_NO_FLAGS;
 	(*tt_data)->ttvn = atomic_read(&bat_priv->tt.vn);
-	(*tt_data)->num_vlan = htons(num_vlan);
 
 	tt_vlan = (*tt_data)->vlan_data;
+	num_vlan = 0;
 	hlist_for_each_entry(vlan, &bat_priv->meshif_vlan_list, list) {
 		vlan_entries = atomic_read(&vlan->tt.num_entries);
 		if (vlan_entries < 1)
@@ -926,8 +923,15 @@ batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 		tt_vlan->reserved = 0;
 
 		tt_vlan++;
+		num_vlan++;
 	}
 
+	/* recalculate in case number of VLANs reduced */
+	change_offset = struct_size(*tt_data, vlan_data, num_vlan);
+	tvlv_len = *tt_len + change_offset;
+
+	(*tt_data)->num_vlan = htons(num_vlan);
+
 	tt_change_ptr = (u8 *)*tt_data + change_offset;
 	*tt_change = (struct batadv_tvlv_tt_change *)tt_change_ptr;
 

-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-03 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-03 12:22 [PATCH batadv 0/8] batman-adv: follow up fixes Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 1/8] batman-adv: tp_meter: fix tp_num leak on kmalloc failure Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 2/8] batman-adv: bla: prevent use-after-free when deleting claims Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 3/8] batman-adv: bla: only purge non-released claims Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 4/8] batman-adv: tt: fix negative tt_buff_len Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 5/8] batman-adv: tt: reject oversized local TVLV buffers Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 7/8] batman-adv: tt: avoid empty VLAN responses Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-03 12:22 ` [PATCH batadv 8/8] batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV entry number overflow Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-05  0:10 ` [PATCH batadv 0/8] batman-adv: follow up fixes Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-05  4:46   ` Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-05  5:00     ` Sven Eckelmann
2026-05-05  5:21       ` Matthieu Baerts
2026-05-05  7:20         ` Sven Eckelmann

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