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[PATCH net 07/11] batman-adv: mcast: fix use-after-free in orig_node RCU release

From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Date: 2026-05-20 11:54:48
Also in: batman
Subsystem: batman advanced, the rest · Maintainers: Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich, Antonio Quartulli, Sven Eckelmann, Linus Torvalds

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batadv_mcast_purge_orig() removes entries from RCU-protected hlists but
does not wait for an RCU grace period before returning. Concurrent RCU
readers may still accesses references to those entries at the point of
removal. RCU-protected readers trying to operate on entries like
orig->mcast_want_all_ipv6_node will then access already freed memory.

Fix this by moving batadv_mcast_purge_orig() to batadv_orig_node_release(),
just before the call_rcu() invocation. This ensures RCU readers that were
active at purge time have drained before the orig_node memory is reclaimed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: ab49886e3da7 ("batman-adv: Add IPv4 link-local/IPv6-ll-all-nodes multicast support")
Acked-by: Linus Lüssing <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/originator.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/originator.c b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
index b3468ccab5354..ad4921b659d9d 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -835,8 +835,6 @@ static void batadv_orig_node_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 
 	orig_node = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_orig_node, rcu);
 
-	batadv_mcast_purge_orig(orig_node);
-
 	batadv_frag_purge_orig(orig_node, NULL);
 
 	kfree(orig_node->tt_buff);
@@ -887,6 +885,8 @@ void batadv_orig_node_release(struct kref *ref)
 	}
 	spin_unlock_bh(&orig_node->vlan_list_lock);
 
+	batadv_mcast_purge_orig(orig_node);
+
 	call_rcu(&orig_node->rcu, batadv_orig_node_free_rcu);
 }
 
-- 
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