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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, Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH net 06/14] batman-adv: tt: fix TOCTOU race for reported vlans
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 11:55:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260515095540.325586-7-sw@simonwunderlich.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260515095540.325586-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de>

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@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>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
index 06548dae1039d..f009cbf8a2768 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);
@@ -916,6 +913,7 @@ batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 	(*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 +924,15 @@ 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:[~2026-05-15  9:55 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 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
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 ` [PATCH net 12/14] batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars Simon Wunderlich
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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