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@vger.kernel.org, Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH net 05/10] batman-adv: fix skb leak when hard_iface is being released
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:53:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261026085309.1074911-6-sw@simonwunderlich.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026085309.1074911-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de>
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
batadv_batman_skb_recv() owns the skb it is given. When the hard_iface
refcount already dropped to zero, the function jumped to err_out, which
only returned NET_RX_DROP and skipped the kfree_skb() under err_free.
To avoid a leak, free the skb before returning in this case.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4fe56e60ac1b ("batman-adv: Check hard_iface refcnt when receiving skb")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
net/batman-adv/main.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/main.c b/net/batman-adv/main.c
index 6c54a8d4be3ec..ced76942f33c5 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/main.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/main.c
@@ -484,8 +484,10 @@ int batadv_batman_skb_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
* shut down otherwise the packet may trigger de-reference errors
* further down in the receive path.
*/
- if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&hard_iface->refcount))
- goto err_out;
+ if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&hard_iface->refcount)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ return NET_RX_DROP;
+ }
skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
@@ -541,7 +543,6 @@ int batadv_batman_skb_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
kfree_skb(skb);
err_put:
batadv_hardif_put(hard_iface);
-err_out:
return NET_RX_DROP;
}
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-26 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-26 8:52 [PATCH net 00/10] pull request: batman-adv 2026-10-26 Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 01/10] batman-adv: avoid WARN_ON for orig_ifinfo allocation failure Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-26 8:56 ` netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 02/10] batman-adv: Close OGM aggregation before transmission Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-27 8:55 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-27 12:19 ` Sven Eckelmann
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 03/10] batman-adv: tpmeter: fix u32 truncation of reported bytes Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 04/10] batman-adv: dat: initialize orig_node of unfilled candidate slots Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-26 8:53 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 06/10] batman-adv: stop originator purge worker before freeing TT Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 07/10] batman-adv: tt: only transmit local ROAM flag together with DEL Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-27 8:55 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-27 12:11 ` Sven Eckelmann
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 08/10] batman-adv: tt: only update flags for TT events Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-29 0:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 09/10] batman-adv: tt: don't drop local events queued during TVLV update Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-27 8:55 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-27 13:31 ` Sven Eckelmann
2026-10-26 8:53 ` [PATCH net 10/10] batman-adv: tt: limit local table to single TVLV response size Simon Wunderlich
2026-10-27 8:55 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-27 12:35 ` Sven Eckelmann
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