Sven Eckelmann acdaf28d8c batman-adv: Fix segfault when writing to throughput_override
[ Upstream commit b9fd14c20871e6189f635e49b32d7789e430b3c8 ]

The per hardif sysfs file "batman_adv/throughput_override" prints the
resulting change as info text when the users writes to this file. It uses
the helper function batadv_info to add it at the same time to the kernel
ring buffer and to the batman-adv debug log (when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG
is enabled).

The function batadv_info requires as first parameter the batman-adv softif
net_device. This parameter is then used to find the private buffer which
contains the debug log for this batman-adv interface. But
batadv_store_throughput_override used as first argument the slave
net_device. This slave device doesn't have the batadv_priv private data
which is access by batadv_info.

Writing to this file with CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG enabled can either lead
to a segfault or to memory corruption.

Fixes: 0b5ecc6811bd ("batman-adv: add throughput override attribute to hard_ifaces")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-20 09:48:48 +02:00
2018-09-26 08:38:04 +02:00
2018-10-18 09:16:28 +02:00

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