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    batman-adv: Use explicit tvlv padding for ELP packets · f4156f96
    Sven Eckelmann authored
    The announcement messages of batman-adv COMPAT_VERSION 15 have the
    possibility to announce additional information via a dynamic TVLV part.
    This part is optional for the ELP packets and currently not parsed by the
    Linux implementation. Still out-of-tree versions are using it to transport
    things like neighbor hashes to optimize the rebroadcast behavior.
    
    Since the ELP broadcast packets are smaller than the minimal ethernet
    packet, it often has to be padded. This is often done (as specified in
    RFC894) with octets of zero and thus work perfectly fine with the TVLV
    part (making it a zero length and thus empty). But not all ethernet
    compatible hardware seems to follow this advice. To avoid ambiguous
    situations when parsing the TVLV header, just force the 4 bytes (TVLV
    length + padding) after the required ELP header to zero.
    
    Fixes: d6f94d91
    
     ("batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure")
    Reported-by: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
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