From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC PATCH maint 1/2] batman-adv: fix packet loss for broadcasted DHCP packets to a server
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:36:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180320033601.1728-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> (raw)
DHCP connectivity issues can currently occur if the following conditions
are met:
1) A DHCP packet from a client to a server
2) This packet has a multicast destination
3) This destination has a matching entry in the translation table
(FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF for IPv4, 33:33:00:01:00:02/33:33:00:01:00:03
for IPv6)
4) The orig-node determined by TT for the multicast destination
does not match the orig-node determined by best-gateway-selection
In this case the DHCP packet will be dropped.
The "gateway-out-of-range" check is supposed to only be applied to
unicasted DHCP packets to a specific DHCP server.
In that case dropping the the unicasted frame forces the client to
retry via a broadcasted one, but now directed to the new best
gateway.
A DHCP packet with broadcast/multicast destination is already ensured to
always be delivered to the best gateway. Dropping a multicasted
DHCP packet here will only prevent completing DHCP as there is no
other fallback.
So far, it seems the unicast check was implicitly performed by
expecting the batadv_transtable_search() to return NULL for multicast
destinations. However, a multicast address could have always ended up in
the translation table and in fact is now common.
To fix this potential loss of a DHCP client-to-server packet to a
multicast address this patch adds an explicit multicast destination
check to reliably bail out of the gateway-out-of-range check for such
destinations.
Fixes: afae4e42aae6 ("batman-adv: refactoring gateway handling code")
Not-yet-signed-off-because-untested
---
net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c b/net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c
index c294f6fd..e7a245bd 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ bool batadv_gw_out_of_range(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
vid = batadv_get_vid(skb, 0);
+ if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethhdr->h_dest))
+ goto out;
+
orig_dst_node = batadv_transtable_search(bat_priv, ethhdr->h_source,
ethhdr->h_dest, vid);
if (!orig_dst_node)
--
2.11.0
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2018-03-20 3:36 Linus Lüssing [this message]
2018-03-20 3:36 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC PATCH maint 2/2] batman-adv: fix gateway-out-of-range check Linus Lüssing
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