This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled batman-adv: Fix hang up with small MTU hard-interface to the 5.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: batman-adv-fix-hang-up-with-small-mtu-hard-interface.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4daf4c1ceeb35680c4e67270c0bc741a31de7f75 Author: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Aug 20 12:25:16 2022 +0900 batman-adv: Fix hang up with small MTU hard-interface [ Upstream commit b1cb8a71f1eaec4eb77051590f7f561f25b15e32 ] The system hangs up when batman-adv soft-interface is created on hard-interface with small MTU. For example, the following commands create batman-adv soft-interface on dummy interface with zero MTU: # ip link add name dummy0 type dummy # ip link set mtu 0 dev dummy0 # ip link set up dev dummy0 # ip link add name bat0 type batadv # ip link set dev dummy0 master bat0 These commands cause the system hang up with the following messages: [ 90.578925][ T6689] batman_adv: bat0: Adding interface: dummy0 [ 90.580884][ T6689] batman_adv: bat0: The MTU of interface dummy0 is too small (0) to handle the transport of batman-adv packets. Packets going over this interface will be fragmented on layer2 which could impact the performance. Setting the MTU to 1560 would solve the problem. [ 90.586264][ T6689] batman_adv: bat0: Interface activated: dummy0 [ 90.590061][ T6689] batman_adv: bat0: Forced to purge local tt entries to fit new maximum fragment MTU (-320) [ 90.595517][ T6689] batman_adv: bat0: Forced to purge local tt entries to fit new maximum fragment MTU (-320) [ 90.598499][ T6689] batman_adv: bat0: Forced to purge local tt entries to fit new maximum fragment MTU (-320) This patch fixes this issue by returning error when enabling hard-interface with small MTU size. Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol") Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index b8f8da7ee3de..41c1ad33d009 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/atomic.h> #include <linux/byteorder/generic.h> #include <linux/container_of.h> +#include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/if.h> #include <linux/if_arp.h> @@ -700,6 +701,9 @@ int batadv_hardif_enable_interface(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface, int max_header_len = batadv_max_header_len(); int ret; + if (hard_iface->net_dev->mtu < ETH_MIN_MTU + max_header_len) + return -EINVAL; + if (hard_iface->if_status != BATADV_IF_NOT_IN_USE) goto out;