The following commit has been merged in the maint branch: commit c7d05ee2b60370392d9c7bb1b764fd36b5aec81b Author: Antonio Quartulli ordex@autistici.org Date: Thu Jun 14 22:21:28 2012 +0200
batman-adv: fix skb->data assignment
skb_linearize(skb) possibly rearranges the skb internal data and then changes the skb->data pointer value. For this reason any other pointer in the code that was assigned skb->data before invoking skb_linearise(skb) must be re-assigned.
In the current tt_query message handling code this is not done and therefore, in case of skb linearization, the pointer used to handle the packet header ends up in pointing to poisoned memory. The packet is then dropped but the translation-table mechanism is corrupted.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli ordex@autistici.org
diff --git a/routing.c b/routing.c index 840e2c6..015471d 100644 --- a/routing.c +++ b/routing.c @@ -617,6 +617,8 @@ int recv_tt_query(struct sk_buff *skb, struct hard_iface *recv_if) * changes */ if (skb_linearize(skb) < 0) goto out; + /* skb_linearize() possibly changed skb->data */ + tt_query = (struct tt_query_packet *)skb->data;
tt_len = tt_query->tt_data * sizeof(struct tt_change);