Hello David,
I know it is extremely late in the release cycle, but please accept this single (and small) change intended for net.
This bug-fix provided by Sven Eckelmann prevents a wrong memory access in setups with multiple interfaces enslaved in batman-adv (very common nowadays).
When such bad access is performed the code ends up filling with random data an internal data structure used to compute the links metric, thus leading to undefined behaviours.
This bug is there since ever, therefore it would be really nice if could get it queued for inclusion in stable.
Please pull or let me know of any problem! Thanks a lot, Antonio
The following changes since commit 51cb67c0b0fcb91581b15bd2e85f29af4d4b2df6:
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (2016-01-06 16:15:03 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge.git tags/batman-adv-fix-for-davem
for you to fetch changes up to 13bbdd370f67aef3351ad7bbc2fb624e3c23f905:
batman-adv: Fix invalid read while copying bat_iv.bcast_own (2016-01-07 14:24:05 +0800)
---------------------------------------------------------------- Included change: - Fix invalid read while copying bat_iv.bcast_own by Sven Eckelmann
---------------------------------------------------------------- Sven Eckelmann (1): batman-adv: Fix invalid read while copying bat_iv.bcast_own
net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)