linux-kernel - [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix hang up with small MTU hard-interface

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Date:   Sat, 20 Aug 2022 12:25:16 +0900
From:   Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
To:     mareklindner@...mailbox.ch, sw@...onwunderlich.de, a@...table.cc,
        sven@...fation.org
Cc:     b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] batman-adv: Fix hang up with small MTU hard-interface

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.

Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
---
 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index b8f8da7ee3de..dce5557800e9 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -700,6 +700,9 @@ 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;

-- 
2.37.2