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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH net 09/11] batman-adv: bla: fix report_work leak on backbone_gw purge
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 13:54:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520115422.53552-10-sw@simonwunderlich.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260520115422.53552-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de>

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw() removes stale backbone gateway entries,
but fails to properly handle their associated report_work:

- If report_work is running, the purge must wait for it to finish before
  freeing the backbone_gw, otherwise the worker may access freed memory
  (e.g. bat_priv).
- If report_work is pending, the purge must cancel it and release the
  reference held for that pending work item.

The previous implementation called hlist_for_each_entry_safe() inside a
spin_lock_bh() section, but cancel_work_sync() may sleep and therefore
cannot be called from within a spinlock-protected region.

Restructure the loop to handle one entry per spinlock critical section:
acquire the lock, find the next entry to purge, remove it from the hash
list, then release the lock before calling cancel_work_sync() and
dropping the hash_entry reference. Repeat until no more entries require
purging.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 23721387c409 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code")
Reviewed-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
index cec11f1251d66..df1dfdf4a1a12 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
@@ -1224,6 +1224,7 @@ static void batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, int now)
 	struct hlist_head *head;
 	struct batadv_hashtable *hash;
 	spinlock_t *list_lock;	/* protects write access to the hash lists */
+	bool purged;
 	int i;
 
 	hash = bat_priv->bla.backbone_hash;
@@ -1234,30 +1235,45 @@ static void batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, int now)
 		head = &hash->table[i];
 		list_lock = &hash->list_locks[i];
 
-		spin_lock_bh(list_lock);
-		hlist_for_each_entry_safe(backbone_gw, node_tmp,
-					  head, hash_entry) {
-			if (now)
-				goto purge_now;
-			if (!batadv_has_timed_out(backbone_gw->lasttime,
-						  BATADV_BLA_BACKBONE_TIMEOUT))
-				continue;
+		do {
+			purged = false;
 
-			batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_BLA, backbone_gw->bat_priv,
-				   "%s(): backbone gw %pM timed out\n",
-				   __func__, backbone_gw->orig);
+			spin_lock_bh(list_lock);
+			hlist_for_each_entry_safe(backbone_gw, node_tmp,
+						  head, hash_entry) {
+				if (now)
+					goto purge_now;
+				if (!batadv_has_timed_out(backbone_gw->lasttime,
+							  BATADV_BLA_BACKBONE_TIMEOUT))
+					continue;
+
+				batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_BLA, backbone_gw->bat_priv,
+					   "%s(): backbone gw %pM timed out\n",
+					   __func__, backbone_gw->orig);
 
 purge_now:
-			/* don't wait for the pending request anymore */
-			if (atomic_read(&backbone_gw->request_sent))
-				atomic_dec(&bat_priv->bla.num_requests);
+				purged = true;
 
-			batadv_bla_del_backbone_claims(backbone_gw);
+				/* don't wait for the pending request anymore */
+				if (atomic_read(&backbone_gw->request_sent))
+					atomic_dec(&bat_priv->bla.num_requests);
 
-			hlist_del_rcu(&backbone_gw->hash_entry);
-			batadv_backbone_gw_put(backbone_gw);
-		}
-		spin_unlock_bh(list_lock);
+				batadv_bla_del_backbone_claims(backbone_gw);
+
+				hlist_del_rcu(&backbone_gw->hash_entry);
+				break;
+			}
+			spin_unlock_bh(list_lock);
+
+			if (purged) {
+				/* reference for pending report_work */
+				if (cancel_work_sync(&backbone_gw->report_work))
+					batadv_backbone_gw_put(backbone_gw);
+
+				/* reference for hash_entry */
+				batadv_backbone_gw_put(backbone_gw);
+			}
+		} while (purged);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-20 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-20 11:54 [PATCH net 00/11] pull request: batman-adv 2026-05-20 Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 01/11] batman-adv: fix batadv_skb_is_frag() kernel-doc Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 02/11] batman-adv: v: stop OGMv2 on disabled interface Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 03/11] batman-adv: tvlv: abort OGM send on tvlv append failure Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 04/11] batman-adv: tvlv: reject oversized TVLV packets Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 05/11] batman-adv: tp_meter: fix race condition in send error reporting Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 06/11] batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid role confusion in tp_list Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 07/11] batman-adv: mcast: fix use-after-free in orig_node RCU release Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 08/11] batman-adv: iv: recover OGM scheduling after forward packet error Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 10/11] batman-adv: bla: avoid double decrement of bla.num_requests Simon Wunderlich
2026-05-20 11:54 ` [PATCH net 11/11] batman-adv: bla: avoid NULL-ptr deref for claim via dropped interface Simon Wunderlich

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