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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2026-06-26 18:11:03 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-07-04 13:39:39 +0200
commit15fbdb23b542eed9eeb969bf0d502a51f7d2c5f9 (patch)
tree19f0c55d6633766d2cb4354081025955aa5bf847
parentfa88c65601e9ee115d3970d58a2deb36786beac4 (diff)
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batman-adv: tvlv: enforce 2-byte alignment
commit 32a6799255525d6ea4da0f7e9e0e521ad9560a46 upstream. The fields of an aggregated OGM(v2) are accessed assuming (at least) 2-byte alignment, so a following OGM must start at an even offset. As the header length is even, an odd tvlv_len would misalign it and trigger unaligned accesses on strict-alignment architectures. Such a misaligned TVLV/OGM/OGMv2 is not created by a normal participant in the mesh. Therefore, reject such malformed packets. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: ef26157747d4 ("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure") [ Drop change for non-existing mcast handling ] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c11
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c11
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/tvlv.c6
3 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
index 669f77eed073..a424c5b7a246 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
@@ -311,14 +311,23 @@ batadv_iv_ogm_aggr_packet(int buff_pos, int packet_len,
const struct batadv_ogm_packet *ogm_packet)
{
int next_buff_pos = 0;
+ u16 tvlv_len;
/* check if there is enough space for the header */
next_buff_pos += buff_pos + sizeof(*ogm_packet);
if (next_buff_pos > packet_len)
return false;
+ tvlv_len = ntohs(ogm_packet->tvlv_len);
+
+ /* the fields of an aggregated OGM are accessed assuming (at least)
+ * 2-byte alignment, so a following OGM must start at an even offset.
+ */
+ if (tvlv_len & 1)
+ return false;
+
/* check if there is enough space for the optional TVLV */
- next_buff_pos += ntohs(ogm_packet->tvlv_len);
+ next_buff_pos += tvlv_len;
return next_buff_pos <= packet_len;
}
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c
index c7d15887c47c..641f3dbde1bd 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c
@@ -854,14 +854,23 @@ batadv_v_ogm_aggr_packet(int buff_pos, int packet_len,
const struct batadv_ogm2_packet *ogm2_packet)
{
int next_buff_pos = 0;
+ u16 tvlv_len;
/* check if there is enough space for the header */
next_buff_pos += buff_pos + sizeof(*ogm2_packet);
if (next_buff_pos > packet_len)
return false;
+ tvlv_len = ntohs(ogm2_packet->tvlv_len);
+
+ /* the fields of an aggregated OGMv2 are accessed assuming (at least)
+ * 2-byte alignment, so a following OGMv2 must start at an even offset.
+ */
+ if (tvlv_len & 1)
+ return false;
+
/* check if there is enough space for the optional TVLV */
- next_buff_pos += ntohs(ogm2_packet->tvlv_len);
+ next_buff_pos += tvlv_len;
return next_buff_pos <= packet_len;
}
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
index de0c13942683..66c2043dc1df 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
@@ -448,6 +448,12 @@ int batadv_tvlv_containers_process(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
if (tvlv_value_cont_len > tvlv_value_len)
break;
+ /* the next tvlv header is accessed assuming (at least) 2-byte
+ * alignment, so it must start at an even offset.
+ */
+ if (tvlv_value_cont_len & 1)
+ break;
+
tvlv_handler = batadv_tvlv_handler_get(bat_priv,
tvlv_hdr->type,
tvlv_hdr->version);