batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data can fail to allocate the memory for the new TVLV block. The caller is informed about this problem with the returned length of 0. Not checking this value results in an invalid memory access when either tt_data or tt_change is accessed.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Fixes: 21a57f6e7a3b ("batman-adv: make the TT CRC logic VLAN specific") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- The very good report from Dan Carpenter can be found at https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2016-November/016713.html
net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c index 7f66309..0dc85eb 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c @@ -3282,7 +3282,7 @@ static bool batadv_send_my_tt_response(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, &tvlv_tt_data, &tt_change, &tt_len); - if (!tt_len) + if (!tt_len || !tvlv_len) goto unlock;
/* Copy the last orig_node's OGM buffer */ @@ -3300,7 +3300,7 @@ static bool batadv_send_my_tt_response(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, &tvlv_tt_data, &tt_change, &tt_len); - if (!tt_len) + if (!tt_len || !tvlv_len) goto out;
/* fill the rest of the tvlv with the real TT entries */
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 9:47:09 PM CET Sven Eckelmann wrote:
batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data can fail to allocate the memory for the new TVLV block. The caller is informed about this problem with the returned length of 0. Not checking this value results in an invalid memory access when either tt_data or tt_change is accessed.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Fixes: 21a57f6e7a3b ("batman-adv: make the TT CRC logic VLAN specific") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org
Applied in 9890c9f.
Thanks! Simon
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