[PATCH 3.2 049/126] batman-adv: fix splat on disabling an interface

Ben Hutchings
2017-02-15T23:08:17Z

From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

commit 9799c50372b23ed774791bdb87d700f1286ee8a9 upstream.

As long as there is still a reference for a hard interface held, there might
still be a forwarding packet relying on its attributes.

Therefore avoid setting hard_iface->soft_iface to NULL when disabling a hard
interface.

This fixes the following, potential splat:

batman_adv: bat0: Interface deactivated: eth1
batman_adv: bat0: Removing interface: eth1
cgroup: new mount options do not match the existing superblock, will be ignored
batman_adv: bat0: Interface deactivated: eth3
batman_adv: bat0: Removing interface: eth3
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1986 at ./net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:549 batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x145/0x643 [batman_adv]
Modules linked in: batman_adv(O-) <...>
CPU: 3 PID: 1986 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Tainted: G W O 4.6.0-rc6+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet [batman_adv]
0000000000000000 ffff88001d93bca0 ffffffff8126c26b 0000000000000000
0000000000000000 ffff88001d93bcf0 ffffffff81051615 ffff88001f19f818
000002251d93bd68 0000000000000046 ffff88001dc04a00 ffff88001becbe48
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8126c26b>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90
[<ffffffff81051615>] __warn+0xc7/0xe5
[<ffffffff8105164b>] warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1a
[<ffffffffa0356f24>] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x145/0x643 [batman_adv]
[<ffffffff8108b01f>] ? __lock_is_held+0x32/0x54
[<ffffffff810689a2>] process_one_work+0x2a8/0x4f5
[<ffffffff81068856>] ? process_one_work+0x15c/0x4f5
[<ffffffff81068df2>] worker_thread+0x1d5/0x2c0
[<ffffffff81068c1d>] ? process_scheduled_works+0x2e/0x2e
[<ffffffff81068c1d>] ? process_scheduled_works+0x2e/0x2e
[<ffffffff8106dd90>] kthread+0xc0/0xc8
[<ffffffff8144de82>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
[<ffffffff8106dcd0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x55/0x55
---[ end trace 647f9f325123dc05 ]---

What happened here is, that there was still a forw_packet (here: a BATMAN IV
OGM) in the queue of eth3 with the forw_packet->if_incoming set to eth1 and the
forw_packet->if_outgoing set to eth3.

When eth3 is to be deactivated and removed, then this thread waits for the
forw_packet queued on eth3 to finish. Because eth1 was deactivated and removed
earlier and by that had forw_packet->if_incoming->soft_iface, set to NULL, the
splat when trying to send/flush the OGM on eth3 occures.

Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
[sven@narfation.org: Reduced size of Oops message]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -412,7 +412,6 @@ void hardif_disable_interface(struct har
if (!bat_priv->num_ifaces)
softif_destroy(hard_iface->soft_iface);

- hard_iface->soft_iface = NULL;
hardif_free_ref(hard_iface);