[PATCH net 09/11] batman-adv: bla: fix report_work leak on backbone_gw purge
From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Date: 2026-05-20 11:54:49
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_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); } }
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