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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2026-05-14 20:22:02 +0300
committerSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2026-05-19 09:44:24 +0300
commit20c2d6a20ca936f5aaa6dd40f73f262ac45c87cc (patch)
tree5d7430910bf353030cbeb4e5e0c5bed382b36370
parentff24f2ecfd94c07a2b89bac497433e3b23271cac (diff)
downloadlinux-20c2d6a20ca936f5aaa6dd40f73f262ac45c87cc.tar.xz
batman-adv: mcast: fix use-after-free in orig_node RCU release
batadv_mcast_purge_orig() removes entries from RCU-protected hlists but does not wait for an RCU grace period before returning. Concurrent RCU readers may still accesses references to those entries at the point of removal. RCU-protected readers trying to operate on entries like orig->mcast_want_all_ipv6_node will then access already freed memory. Fix this by moving batadv_mcast_purge_orig() to batadv_orig_node_release(), just before the call_rcu() invocation. This ensures RCU readers that were active at purge time have drained before the orig_node memory is reclaimed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: ab49886e3da7 ("batman-adv: Add IPv4 link-local/IPv6-ll-all-nodes multicast support") Acked-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/originator.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/originator.c b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
index b3468ccab535..ad4921b659d9 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -835,8 +835,6 @@ static void batadv_orig_node_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
orig_node = container_of(rcu, struct batadv_orig_node, rcu);
- batadv_mcast_purge_orig(orig_node);
-
batadv_frag_purge_orig(orig_node, NULL);
kfree(orig_node->tt_buff);
@@ -887,6 +885,8 @@ void batadv_orig_node_release(struct kref *ref)
}
spin_unlock_bh(&orig_node->vlan_list_lock);
+ batadv_mcast_purge_orig(orig_node);
+
call_rcu(&orig_node->rcu, batadv_orig_node_free_rcu);
}