From 419a866f031ad4dae4fd5dcac50d24633dc07815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Eckelmann Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 21:55:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT If the MTU of one of an attached interface becomes too small to transmit the local translation table then it must be resized to fit inside all fragments (when enabled) or a single packet. But if the MTU becomes too low to transmit even the header + the VLAN specific part then the resizing of the local TT will never succeed. This can for example happen when the usable space is 110 bytes and 11 VLANs are on top of batman-adv. In this case, at least 116 byte would be needed. There will just be an endless spam of batman_adv: batadv0: Forced to purge local tt entries to fit new maximum fragment MTU (110) in the log but the function will never finish. Problem here is that the timeout will be halved all the time and will then stagnate at 0 and therefore never be able to reduce the table even more. There are other scenarios possible with a similar result. The number of BATADV_TT_CLIENT_NOPURGE entries in the local TT can for example be too high to fit inside a packet. Such a scenario can therefore happen also with only a single VLAN + 7 non-purgable addresses - requiring at least 120 bytes. While this should be handled proactively when: * interface with too low MTU is added * VLAN is added * non-purgeable local mac is added * MTU of an attached interface is reduced * fragmentation setting gets disabled (which most likely requires dropping attached interfaces) not all of these scenarios can be prevented because batman-adv is only consuming events without the the possibility to prevent these actions (non-purgable MAC address added, MTU of an attached interface is reduced). It is therefore necessary to also make sure that the code is able to handle also the situations when there were already incompatible system configuration are present. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann --- batman-adv/Makefile | 2 +- ...-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-loca.patch | 59 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 batman-adv/patches/0011-batman-adv-Avoid-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-loca.patch diff --git a/batman-adv/Makefile b/batman-adv/Makefile index 253f7c7..e5cf7b4 100644 --- a/batman-adv/Makefile +++ b/batman-adv/Makefile @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk PKG_NAME:=batman-adv PKG_VERSION:=2023.1 -PKG_RELEASE:=6 +PKG_RELEASE:=7 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-$(PKG_VERSION) diff --git a/batman-adv/patches/0011-batman-adv-Avoid-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-loca.patch b/batman-adv/patches/0011-batman-adv-Avoid-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-loca.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d4f071 --- /dev/null +++ b/batman-adv/patches/0011-batman-adv-Avoid-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-loca.patch @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +From: Sven Eckelmann +Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:32:13 +0100 +Subject: batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT + +If the MTU of one of an attached interface becomes too small to transmit +the local translation table then it must be resized to fit inside all +fragments (when enabled) or a single packet. + +But if the MTU becomes too low to transmit even the header + the VLAN +specific part then the resizing of the local TT will never succeed. This +can for example happen when the usable space is 110 bytes and 11 VLANs are +on top of batman-adv. In this case, at least 116 byte would be needed. +There will just be an endless spam of + + batman_adv: batadv0: Forced to purge local tt entries to fit new maximum fragment MTU (110) + +in the log but the function will never finish. Problem here is that the +timeout will be halved all the time and will then stagnate at 0 and +therefore never be able to reduce the table even more. + +There are other scenarios possible with a similar result. The number of +BATADV_TT_CLIENT_NOPURGE entries in the local TT can for example be too +high to fit inside a packet. Such a scenario can therefore happen also with +only a single VLAN + 7 non-purgable addresses - requiring at least 120 +bytes. + +While this should be handled proactively when: + +* interface with too low MTU is added +* VLAN is added +* non-purgeable local mac is added +* MTU of an attached interface is reduced +* fragmentation setting gets disabled (which most likely requires dropping + attached interfaces) + +not all of these scenarios can be prevented because batman-adv is only +consuming events without the the possibility to prevent these actions +(non-purgable MAC address added, MTU of an attached interface is reduced). +It is therefore necessary to also make sure that the code is able to handle +also the situations when there were already incompatible system +configuration are present. + +Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org +Fixes: f7f2fe494388 ("batman-adv: limit local translation table max size") +Reported-by: syzbot+a6a4b5bb3da165594cff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com +Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann +Origin: upstream, https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/05f6eadbbddc834669249ae204026c383445b571 + +--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c ++++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +@@ -3948,7 +3948,7 @@ void batadv_tt_local_resize_to_mtu(struc + + spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->tt.commit_lock); + +- while (true) { ++ while (timeout) { + table_size = batadv_tt_local_table_transmit_size(bat_priv); + if (packet_size_max >= table_size) + break; -- 2.30.2