When a client roamed back to a node before it got time to destroy the pending local entry (i.e. within the same originator interval) the old global one is directly removed from hash table and left as such.
But because this entry had an extra reference taken at lookup (i.e using batadv_tt_global_hash_find) there is no way its memory will be reclaimed at any time causing the following memory leak:
unreferenced object 0xffff0000073c8000 (size 18560): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294907738 (age 228.644s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 06 31 ac 12 c7 7a 05 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .1...z.......... 2c ad be 08 00 80 ff ff 6c b6 be 08 00 80 ff ff ,.......l....... backtrace: [<00000000ee6e0ffa>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1b4/0x300 [<000000000ff2fdbc>] batadv_tt_global_add+0x700/0xe20 [<00000000443897c7>] _batadv_tt_update_changes+0x21c/0x790 [<000000005dd90463>] batadv_tt_update_changes+0x3c/0x110 [<00000000a2d7fc57>] batadv_tt_tvlv_unicast_handler_v1+0xafc/0xe10 [<0000000011793f2a>] batadv_tvlv_containers_process+0x168/0x2b0 [<00000000b7cbe2ef>] batadv_recv_unicast_tvlv+0xec/0x1f4 [<0000000042aef1d8>] batadv_batman_skb_recv+0x25c/0x3a0 [<00000000bbd8b0a2>] __netif_receive_skb_core.isra.0+0x7a8/0xe90 [<000000004033d428>] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x64/0x74 [<000000000f39a009>] __netif_receive_skb+0x48/0xe0 [<00000000f2cd8888>] process_backlog+0x174/0x344 [<00000000507d6564>] __napi_poll+0x58/0x1f4 [<00000000b64ef9eb>] net_rx_action+0x504/0x590 [<00000000056fa5e4>] _stext+0x1b8/0x418 [<00000000878879d6>] run_ksoftirqd+0x74/0xa4 unreferenced object 0xffff00000bae1a80 (size 56): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294910888 (age 216.092s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 78 b1 0b 00 00 ff ff 0d 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 .x.......P...... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 c8 3c 07 00 00 ff ff ........P.<..... backtrace: [<00000000ee6e0ffa>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1b4/0x300 [<00000000d9aaa49e>] batadv_tt_global_add+0x53c/0xe20 [<00000000443897c7>] _batadv_tt_update_changes+0x21c/0x790 [<000000005dd90463>] batadv_tt_update_changes+0x3c/0x110 [<00000000a2d7fc57>] batadv_tt_tvlv_unicast_handler_v1+0xafc/0xe10 [<0000000011793f2a>] batadv_tvlv_containers_process+0x168/0x2b0 [<00000000b7cbe2ef>] batadv_recv_unicast_tvlv+0xec/0x1f4 [<0000000042aef1d8>] batadv_batman_skb_recv+0x25c/0x3a0 [<00000000bbd8b0a2>] __netif_receive_skb_core.isra.0+0x7a8/0xe90 [<000000004033d428>] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x64/0x74 [<000000000f39a009>] __netif_receive_skb+0x48/0xe0 [<00000000f2cd8888>] process_backlog+0x174/0x344 [<00000000507d6564>] __napi_poll+0x58/0x1f4 [<00000000b64ef9eb>] net_rx_action+0x504/0x590 [<00000000056fa5e4>] _stext+0x1b8/0x418 [<00000000878879d6>] run_ksoftirqd+0x74/0xa4
Releasing the extra reference from batadv_tt_global_hash_find even at roam back when batadv_tt_global_free is called fixes this memory leak.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 068ee6e204e1 ("batman-adv: roaming handling mechanism redesign") Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel repk@triplefau.lt --- net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c index 36ca31252a73..b95c36765d04 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c @@ -774,7 +774,6 @@ bool batadv_tt_local_add(struct net_device *soft_iface, const u8 *addr, if (roamed_back) { batadv_tt_global_free(bat_priv, tt_global, "Roaming canceled"); - tt_global = NULL; } else { /* The global entry has to be marked as ROAMING and * has to be kept for consistency purpose