batman-adv: Don't leak information through uninitialized packet fields
The reserved fields in batman-adv packets are not set to a constant value. The
content of these memory regions is leaked unintentionally to the network.
This regression was introduced in 3b27ffb00fbe9d9189715ea13ce8712e2f0cb0c5
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/vis.c b/net/batman-adv/vis.c
index f09cc9a..2a2ea06 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/vis.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/vis.c
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@
packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
packet->seqno = htonl(ntohl(packet->seqno) + 1);
packet->entries = 0;
+ packet->reserved = 0;
skb_trim(info->skb_packet, sizeof(*packet));
if (packet->vis_type == BATADV_VIS_TYPE_CLIENT_UPDATE) {
@@ -890,6 +891,7 @@
packet->header.packet_type = BATADV_VIS;
packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
packet->seqno = 0;
+ packet->reserved = 0;
packet->entries = 0;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bat_priv->vis_send_list);