From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 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>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] batman-adv: tvlv: reject oversized TVLV packets
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 20:08:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260529180804.414401-1-sven@narfation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026052836-occupier-racism-d548@gregkh>
commit f50487e3566358b2b982b7801945e858c78ad9ab upstream.
batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append() builds a TVLV packet section from
the tvlv.container_list. The total size of this section is computed by
batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(), which sums the sizes of all registered
containers.
The return type and accumulator in batadv_tvlv_container_list_size() were
u16. If the accumulated size exceeds U16_MAX, the value wraps around,
causing the subsequent allocation in batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append()
to be undersized. The memcpy-style copy that follows would then write
beyond the end of the allocated buffer, corrupting kernel memory.
Fix this by widening the return type of batadv_tvlv_container_list_size()
to size_t. In batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append(), check the computed length
against U16_MAX before proceeding, and bail out as if the allocation had
failed when the limit is exceeded.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: ef26157747d4 ("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure")
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>
---
net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
index 76c6e0599694c..8d6b017c433cc 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <linux/kref.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/lockdep.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
@@ -160,10 +161,10 @@ batadv_tvlv_container_get(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, u8 type, u8 version)
*
* Return: size of all currently registered tvlv containers in bytes.
*/
-static u16 batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
+static size_t batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
{
struct batadv_tvlv_container *tvlv;
- u16 tvlv_len = 0;
+ size_t tvlv_len = 0;
lockdep_assert_held(&bat_priv->tvlv.container_list_lock);
@@ -316,13 +317,17 @@ int batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
{
struct batadv_tvlv_container *tvlv;
struct batadv_tvlv_hdr *tvlv_hdr;
- u16 tvlv_value_len;
+ size_t tvlv_value_len;
void *tvlv_value;
int tvlv_len_ret;
bool ret;
spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->tvlv.container_list_lock);
tvlv_value_len = batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(bat_priv);
+ if (tvlv_value_len > U16_MAX) {
+ tvlv_len_ret = -E2BIG;
+ goto end;
+ }
ret = batadv_tvlv_realloc_packet_buff(packet_buff, packet_buff_len,
packet_min_len, tvlv_value_len);
--
2.47.3
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2026-05-28 11:51 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] batman-adv: tvlv: reject oversized TVLV packets" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
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