Repository : ssh://git@open-mesh.org/batman-adv On branches: ecsv/pu-maint,maint commit 24d83a50421c1c5d39cd9c015516a1a293ae8d0c Author: Marek Lindner <mareklindner(a)neomailbox.ch&gt; Date: Fri Sep 7 05:45:54 2018 +0800 batman-adv: fix backbone_gw refcount on queue_work() failure 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(a)neomailbox.ch&gt; Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven(a)narfation.org&gt; 24d83a50421c1c5d39cd9c015516a1a293ae8d0c net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c index a2de5a4..58c093c 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c @@ -1772,6 +1772,7 @@ 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); @@ -1795,8 +1796,13 @@ 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; }