[PATCH net 1/9] batman-adv: ensure minimal ethernet header on TX

Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 11:18:13 +0200
Newsgroups org.open-mesh.lists.batman,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>

As documented in commit 8bd67ebb50c0 ("net: bridge: xmit: make sure we have
at least eth header len bytes"), it is possible by for a local user with
eBPF TC hook access to attach a tc filter which truncates the packet and
redirects to an batadv interface. But the code assumes that at least
ETH_HLEN bytes are available and thus might read outside of the available
buffer.

The batadv_interface_tx() must therefore always check itself if enough data
is available for the ethernet header and don't rely on min_header_len.

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
Reported-by: Sashiko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
---
 net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c
index 511f70e0706a7..0b75234521b63 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (READ_ONCE(bat_priv->mesh_state) != BATADV_MESH_ACTIVE)
 		goto dropped;
 
+	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN))
+		goto dropped;
+
 	/* reset control block to avoid left overs from previous users */
 	memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(struct batadv_skb_cb));
 
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