batman-adv: fix backbone_gw refcount on queue_work() failure
authorMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 21:45:54 +0000 (05:45 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 20 Oct 2018 07:51:30 +0000 (09:51 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 5af96b9c59c72fb2af2d19c5cc2f3cdcee391dff ]

The backbone_gw refcounter is to be decreased by the queued work and
currently is never decreased if the queue_work() call fails.
Fix by checking the queue_work() return value and decrease refcount
if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c

index 582e27698bf09ff44ca95f5e52583f17671e4532..8b6f654bc85db4567b66a70ac233ffed1bf489a4 100644 (file)
@@ -1767,6 +1767,7 @@ batadv_bla_loopdetect_check(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
        struct batadv_bla_backbone_gw *backbone_gw;
        struct ethhdr *ethhdr;
+       bool ret;
 
        ethhdr = eth_hdr(skb);
 
@@ -1790,8 +1791,13 @@ batadv_bla_loopdetect_check(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
        if (unlikely(!backbone_gw))
                return true;
 
-       queue_work(batadv_event_workqueue, &backbone_gw->report_work);
-       /* backbone_gw is unreferenced in the report work function function */
+       ret = queue_work(batadv_event_workqueue, &backbone_gw->report_work);
+
+       /* backbone_gw is unreferenced in the report work function function
+        * if queue_work() call was successful
+        */
+       if (!ret)
+               batadv_backbone_gw_put(backbone_gw);
 
        return true;
 }