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Commit 02039d41 authored by Andy Strohman's avatar Andy Strohman Committed by Frieder Schrempf
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batman-adv: fix panic during interface removal


commit ccb7276a6d26d6f8416e315b43b45e15ee7f29e2 upstream.

Reference counting is used to ensure that
batadv_hardif_neigh_node and batadv_hard_iface
are not freed before/during
batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update work is
finished.

But there isn't a guarantee that the hard if will
remain associated with a soft interface up until
the work is finished.

This fixes a crash triggered by reboot that looks
like this:

Call trace:
 batadv_v_mesh_free+0xd0/0x4dc [batman_adv]
 batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update+0x1c/0xa4
 process_one_work+0x178/0x398
 worker_thread+0x2e8/0x4d0
 kthread+0xd8/0xdc
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

(the batadv_v_mesh_free call is misleading,
and does not actually happen)

I was able to make the issue happen more reliably
by changing hardif_neigh->bat_v.metric_work work
to be delayed work. This allowed me to track down
and confirm the fix.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c833484e ("batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughput")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Strohman <andrew@andrewstrohman.com>
[sven@narfation.org: prevent entering batadv_v_elp_get_throughput without
 soft_iface]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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