linux-kernel - [022/200] Staging: batman-adv: Fixing wrap-around bug in vis

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:41:52 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Linus LÃŒssing <linus.luessing@....de>,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@....de>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: [022/200] Staging: batman-adv: Fixing wrap-around bug in vis

2.6.34-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: =?UTF-8?q?Linus=20L=C3=BCssing?= <linus.luessing@....de>

commit ea4ceb18b525fd7016c10995c0f1313a729c7e2b upstream.

When the seqno for a vis packet had a wrap around from i.e. 255 to 0,
add_packet() would falsely claim the older packet with the seqno 255 as
newer as the one with the seqno of 0 and would therefore ignore the new
packet. This happens with all following vis packets until the old vis
packet expires after 180 seconds timeout. This patch fixes this issue
and gets rid of these highly undesired 3min. breaks for the vis-server.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@....de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/staging/batman-adv/vis.c |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/vis.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/vis.c
@@ -27,6 +27,22 @@
 #include "hard-interface.h"
 #include "hash.h"
 
+/* Returns the smallest signed integer in two's complement with the sizeof x */
+#define smallest_signed_int(x) (1u << (7u + 8u * (sizeof(x) - 1u)))
+
+/* Checks if a sequence number x is a predecessor/successor of y.
+   they handle overflows/underflows and can correctly check for a
+   predecessor/successor unless the variable sequence number has grown by
+   more then 2**(bitwidth(x)-1)-1.
+   This means that for a uint8_t with the maximum value 255, it would think:
+    * when adding nothing - it is neither a predecessor nor a successor
+    * before adding more than 127 to the starting value - it is a predecessor,
+    * when adding 128 - it is neither a predecessor nor a successor,
+    * after adding more than 127 to the starting value - it is a successor */
+#define seq_before(x, y) ({typeof(x) _dummy = (x - y); \
+			  _dummy > smallest_signed_int(_dummy); })
+#define seq_after(x, y) seq_before(y, x)
+
 struct hashtable_t *vis_hash;
 DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vis_hash_lock);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(recv_list_lock);
@@ -212,7 +228,7 @@ static struct vis_info *add_packet(struc
 	old_info = hash_find(vis_hash, &search_elem);
 
 	if (old_info != NULL) {
-		if (vis_packet->seqno - old_info->packet.seqno <= 0) {
+		if (!seq_after(vis_packet->seqno, old_info->packet.seqno)) {
 			if (old_info->packet.seqno == vis_packet->seqno) {
 				recv_list_add(&old_info->recv_list,
 					      vis_packet->sender_orig);


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/