From f2bbc67ba027e9ffed7cfd3ee51eb1d84c51add2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Eckelmann Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:09:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] batman-adv: tp_meter: restrict number of unacked list entries commit e7c775110e1858e5a7471a23a9c9658c0af9df89 upstream. When the unacked_list is unbound, an attacker could send messages with small lengths and appropriated seqno + gaps to force the receiver to allocate more and more unacked_list entries. And the end either causing an out-of-memory situation or increase the management overhead for the (large) list that significant portions of CPU cycles are wasted in searching through the list. When limiting the list to a specific number, it is important to still correctly add a new entry to the list. But if the list became larger than the limit, the last entry of the list (with the highest seqno) must be dropped to still allow the earlier seqnos to finish and therefore to continue the process. Otherwise, the process might get stuck with too high seqnos which are not handled by batadv_tp_ack_unordered(). Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 33a3bb4a3345 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation") [ Switch to pre-splitted tp_vars structure names ] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin [uli: backport to 4.19] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Hecht Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek --- net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- net/batman-adv/types.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c b/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c index 62b855a8292b..0a13aa503745 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ #define BATADV_TP_PLEN (BATADV_TP_PACKET_LEN - ETH_HLEN - \ sizeof(struct batadv_unicast_packet)) +/** + * BATADV_TP_MAX_UNACKED - maximum number of packets a receiver didn't yet ack + */ +#define BATADV_TP_MAX_UNACKED 100 + static u8 batadv_tp_prerandom[4096] __read_mostly; /** @@ -1212,6 +1217,7 @@ static void batadv_tp_receiver_shutdown(struct timer_list *t) list_for_each_entry_safe(un, safe, &tp_vars->unacked_list, list) { list_del(&un->list); kfree(un); + tp_vars->unacked_count--; } spin_unlock_bh(&tp_vars->unacked_lock); @@ -1324,6 +1330,7 @@ static bool batadv_tp_handle_out_of_order(struct batadv_tp_vars *tp_vars, /* if the list is empty immediately attach this new object */ if (list_empty(&tp_vars->unacked_list)) { list_add(&new->list, &tp_vars->unacked_list); + tp_vars->unacked_count++; goto out; } @@ -1354,12 +1361,24 @@ static bool batadv_tp_handle_out_of_order(struct batadv_tp_vars *tp_vars, */ list_add(&new->list, &un->list); added = true; + tp_vars->unacked_count++; break; } /* received packet with smallest seqno out of order; add it to front */ - if (!added) + if (!added) { list_add(&new->list, &tp_vars->unacked_list); + tp_vars->unacked_count++; + } + + /* remove the last (biggest) unacked seqno when list is too large */ + if (tp_vars->unacked_count > BATADV_TP_MAX_UNACKED) { + un = list_last_entry(&tp_vars->unacked_list, + struct batadv_tp_unacked, list); + list_del(&un->list); + kfree(un); + tp_vars->unacked_count--; + } out: spin_unlock_bh(&tp_vars->unacked_lock); @@ -1396,6 +1415,7 @@ static void batadv_tp_ack_unordered(struct batadv_tp_vars *tp_vars) list_del(&un->list); kfree(un); + tp_vars->unacked_count--; } spin_unlock_bh(&tp_vars->unacked_lock); } @@ -1445,6 +1465,7 @@ batadv_tp_init_recv(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, spin_lock_init(&tp_vars->unacked_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp_vars->unacked_list); + tp_vars->unacked_count = 0; kref_get(&tp_vars->refcount); timer_setup(&tp_vars->timer, batadv_tp_receiver_shutdown, 0); diff --git a/net/batman-adv/types.h b/net/batman-adv/types.h index 67feea66b8bb..45447c5aa114 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/types.h +++ b/net/batman-adv/types.h @@ -1450,6 +1450,9 @@ struct batadv_tp_vars { /** @unacked_lock: protect unacked_list */ spinlock_t unacked_lock; + /** @unacked_count: number of unacked entries */ + size_t unacked_count; + /** @last_recv_time: time time (jiffies) a msg was received */ unsigned long last_recv_time;