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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "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>,
	b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>,
	Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>,
	Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>, Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>,
	Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH net 12/14] batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 11:55:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260515095540.325586-13-sw@simonwunderlich.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260515095540.325586-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de>

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batadv_tp_recv_ack() and batadv_tp_stop() are only valid for tp_vars in the
BATADV_TP_SENDER role. When called with a BATADV_TP_RECEIVER role, it
proceeds to read sender-only members that were never initialized, leading
to undefined behavior.

This can be triggered when a node that is currently acting as a receiver in
an ongoing tp_meter session receives a malicious ACK packet.

Guard against this by checking tp_vars->role immediately after the
lookup and bailing out if it is not BATADV_TP_SENDER, before any of
those members are accessed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 33a3bb4a3345 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c b/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c
index ca6c3f6374bc5..a3593d104caa5 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c
@@ -664,6 +664,9 @@ static void batadv_tp_recv_ack(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 	if (unlikely(!tp_vars))
 		return;
 
+	if (unlikely(tp_vars->role != BATADV_TP_SENDER))
+		goto out;
+
 	if (unlikely(atomic_read(&tp_vars->sending) == 0))
 		goto out;
 
@@ -1101,12 +1104,16 @@ void batadv_tp_stop(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, const u8 *dst,
 	if (!tp_vars) {
 		batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_TP_METER, bat_priv,
 			   "Meter: trying to interrupt an already over connection\n");
-		goto out;
+		goto out_put_orig_node;
 	}
 
+	if (unlikely(tp_vars->role != BATADV_TP_SENDER))
+		goto out_put_tp_vars;
+
 	batadv_tp_sender_shutdown(tp_vars, return_value);
+out_put_tp_vars:
 	batadv_tp_vars_put(tp_vars);
-out:
+out_put_orig_node:
 	batadv_orig_node_put(orig_node);
 }
 
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-15  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-15  9:55 [PATCH net 00/14] pull request: batman-adv 2026-05-15 Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 01/14] batman-adv: fix tp_meter counter underflow during shutdown Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 02/14] batman-adv: tp_meter: fix tp_vars reference leak in receiver shutdown Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 03/14] batman-adv: tt: reject oversized local TVLV buffers Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 04/14] batman-adv: tt: fix negative tt_buff_len Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 05/14] batman-adv: tt: fix negative last_changeset_len Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 06/14] batman-adv: tt: fix TOCTOU race for reported vlans Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 07/14] batman-adv: tt: avoid empty VLAN responses Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 08/14] batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV entry number overflow Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 09/14] batman-adv: fix fragment reassembly length accounting Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 10/14] batman-adv: clear current gateway during teardown Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 11/14] batman-adv: dat: handle forward allocation error Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 13/14] batman-adv: frag: disallow unicast fragment in fragment Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-15  9:55 ` [PATCH net 14/14] batman-adv: tp_meter: directly shut down timer on cleanup Simon Wunderlich

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