[PATCH 4.4 150/162] batman-adv: Fix multicast TT issues with bogus ROAM flags

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Nov 24 2021 - 07:11:37 EST


From: Linus L� <linus.luessing@xxxxxxxxx>

commit a44ebeff6bbd6ef50db41b4195fca87b21aefd20 upstream.

When a (broken) node wrongly sends multicast TT entries with a ROAM
flag then this causes any receiving node to drop all entries for the
same multicast MAC address announced by other nodes, leading to
packet loss.

Fix this DoS vector by only storing TT sync flags. For multicast TT
non-sync'ing flag bits like ROAM are unused so far anyway.

Fixes: 1d8ab8d3c176 ("batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets")
Reported-by: Leonardo M�in <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus L� <linus.luessing@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ bp: 4.4 backported: adjust context, use old style to access flags ]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -1426,7 +1426,8 @@ static bool batadv_tt_global_add(struct
ether_addr_copy(common->addr, tt_addr);
common->vid = vid;

- common->flags = flags & (~BATADV_TT_SYNC_MASK);
+ if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(common->addr))
+ common->flags = flags & (~BATADV_TT_SYNC_MASK);

tt_global_entry->roam_at = 0;
/* node must store current time in case of roaming. This is
@@ -1489,7 +1490,8 @@ static bool batadv_tt_global_add(struct
* TT_CLIENT_WIFI, therefore they have to be copied in the
* client entry
*/
- tt_global_entry->common.flags |= flags & (~BATADV_TT_SYNC_MASK);
+ if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(common->addr))
+ tt_global_entry->common.flags |= flags & (~BATADV_TT_SYNC_MASK);

/* If there is the BATADV_TT_CLIENT_ROAM flag set, there is only
* one originator left in the list and we previously received a