Forwarded: [PATCH] configfs: unhash dentry before dropping the item

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Subject: [PATCH] configfs: unhash dentry before dropping the item
Author: jchuang26@m.fudan.edu.cn

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 50d05c7c76c96b90462f24debacca971d2e86713

Reported-by: syzbot+a079f084653164a652d1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
index 53fbdbbe8..3c5f7c80b 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
@@ -1410,9 +1410,12 @@ batadv_iv_ogm_update_seqnos(const struct ethhdr *ethhdr,
 		return BATADV_NO_DUP;
 
 	orig_ifinfo = batadv_orig_ifinfo_new(orig_node, if_outgoing);
-	if (WARN_ON(!orig_ifinfo)) {
+	/* batadv_orig_ifinfo_new() can fail when the memory allocation fails.
+	 * This is not a bug, so don't warn and treat the OGM as non-duplicate.
+	 */
+	if (!orig_ifinfo) {
 		batadv_orig_node_put(orig_node);
-		return 0;
+		return BATADV_NO_DUP;
 	}
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&orig_node->bat_iv.ogm_cnt_lock);