The announcement messages of batman-adv COMPAT_VERSION 15 have the possibility to announce additional information via a dynamic TVLV part. This part is optional for the ELP packets and currently not parsed by the Linux implementation. Still out-of-tree versions are using it to transport things like neighbor hashes to optimize the rebroadcast behavior.

Since the ELP broadcast packets are smaller than the minimal ethernet packet, it often has to be padded. This is often done (as specified in RFC894) with octets of zero and thus work perfectly fine with the TVLV part (making it a zero length and thus empty). But not all ethernet compatible hardware seems to follow this advice. To avoid ambiguous situations when parsing the TVLV header, just force the 4 bytes (TVLV length + padding) after the required ELP header to zero.

Fixes: a4b88af77e28 ("batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure") Reported-by: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c index 9f481cfd..e8090f09 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c @@ -352,19 +352,21 @@ static void batadv_v_elp_periodic_work(struct work_struct *work) */ int batadv_v_elp_iface_enable(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) { + static const size_t tvlv_padding = sizeof(__be32); struct batadv_elp_packet *elp_packet; unsigned char *elp_buff; u32 random_seqno; size_t size; int res = -ENOMEM;

- size = ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN + BATADV_ELP_HLEN; + size = ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN + BATADV_ELP_HLEN + tvlv_padding; hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb = dev_alloc_skb(size); if (!hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb) goto out;

skb_reserve(hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN); - elp_buff = skb_put_zero(hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb, BATADV_ELP_HLEN); + elp_buff = skb_put_zero(hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb, + BATADV_ELP_HLEN + tvlv_padding); elp_packet = (struct batadv_elp_packet *)elp_buff;

elp_packet->packet_type = BATADV_ELP;