Patch "batman-adv: Check for alloc errors when preparing TT local data" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

batman-adv: Check for alloc errors when preparing TT local data

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
batman-adv-check-for-alloc-errors-when-preparing-tt-local-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:47:09 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: Check for alloc errors when preparing TT local data

From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>

commit c2d0f48a13e53b4747704c9e692f5e765e52041a upstream.

batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data can fail to allocate the memory for the new TVLV block. The caller is informed about this problem with the returned length of 0. Not checking this value results in an invalid memory access when either tt_data or tt_change is accessed.

---
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -2849,7 +2849,7 @@ static bool batadv_send_my_tt_response(s
 							     &tvlv_tt_data,
 							     &tt_change,
 							     &tt_len);
-		if (!tt_len)
+		if (!tt_len || !tvlv_len)
 			goto unlock;
 
 		/* Copy the last orig_node's OGM buffer */

@@ -2867,7 +2867,7 @@ static bool batadv_send_my_tt_response(s
 							     &tvlv_tt_data,
 							     &tt_change,
 							     &tt_len);
-		if (!tt_len)
+		if (!tt_len || !tvlv_len)
 			goto out;
 
 		/* fill the rest of the tvlv with the real TT entries */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/batman-adv-check-for-alloc-errors-when-preparing-tt-local-data.patch