This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT
to the 5.4-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-avoid-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-local-tt.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b1f532a3b1e6d2e5559c7ace49322922637a28aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:58:33 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b1f532a3b1e6d2e5559c7ace49322922637a28aa upstream.
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: a19d3d85e1b8 ("batman-adv: limit local translation table max size")
Reported-by: syzbot+a6a4b5bb3da165594cff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -4190,7 +4190,7 @@ 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;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/batman-adv-avoid-infinite-loop-trying-to-resize-local-tt.patch
