The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 5af96b9c59c72fb2af2d19c5cc2f3cdcee391dff Author: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch 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@neomailbox.ch Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich sw@simonwunderlich.de

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c index ff9659af6b91..5f1aeeded0e3 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; }