Re: [PATCH net] batman-adv: Hold rtnl lock during MTU update via netlink

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:48:48PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:

The automatic recalculation of the maximum allowed MTU is usually triggered
by code sections which are already rtnl lock protected by callers outside
of batman-adv. But when the fragmentation setting is changed via
batman-adv's own batadv genl family, then the rtnl lock is not yet taken.

But dev_set_mtu requires that the caller holds the rtnl lock because it
uses netdevice notifiers. And this code will then fail the check for this
lock:

  RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (1953)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+f8812454d9b3ac00d282@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c6a953cce8d0 ("batman-adv: Trigger events for auto adjusted MTU")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

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This problem was just identified by syzbot [1]. I hope it is ok to directly
send this patch to netdev instead of creating a single-patch PR from
the batadv/net branch. If you still prefer a PR then we can also prepare
it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/0000000000009bbb4b0603717cde@google.com (local)

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