1735 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Sven Eckelmann f80d3d98d2 batman-adv: bla: avoid NULL-ptr deref for claim via dropped interface
Without rtnl_lock held, a hardif might be retrieved as primary interface of
a meshif, but then (while operating on this interface) getting decoupled
from the mesh interface. In this case, the meshif still exists but the
pointer from the primary hardif to the meshif is set to NULL.

The mesh_iface must be checked first to be non-NULL before continuing to
send an ARP request using meshif.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 23721387c4 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code")
Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+9fdcc9f05a98a540b816@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9fdcc9f05a98a540b816
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 10:43:54 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 83ab69bd12 batman-adv: bla: avoid double decrement of bla.num_requests
The bla.num_requests is increased when no request_sent was in progress. And
it is decremented in various places (announcement was received, backbone is
purged, periodic work). But the check if the request_sent is actually set
to a specific state and the atomic_dec/_inc are not safe because they are
not atomic (TOCTOU) and multiple such code portions can run concurrently.

At the same time, it is necessary to modify request_sent (state) and
bla.num_requests atomically. Otherwise batadv_bla_send_request() might set
request_sent to 1 and is interrupted.  batadv_handle_announce() can then
set request_sent back to 0 and decrement num_requests before
batadv_bla_send_request() incremented it.

The two operations must therefore be locked. And since state (request_sent)
and wait_periods are only accessed inside this lock, they can be converted
to simpler datatypes. And to avoid that the bla.num_requests is touched by
a parallel running context with a valid backbone_gw reference after
batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw() ran, a third state "stopped" is required to
correctly signal that a backbone_gw is in the state of being cleaned up.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 23721387c4 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 09:09:34 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 0459430add batman-adv: bla: fix report_work leak on backbone_gw purge
batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw() removes stale backbone gateway entries,
but fails to properly handle their associated report_work:

- If report_work is running, the purge must wait for it to finish before
  freeing the backbone_gw, otherwise the worker may access freed memory
  (e.g. bat_priv).
- If report_work is pending, the purge must cancel it and release the
  reference held for that pending work item.

The previous implementation called hlist_for_each_entry_safe() inside a
spin_lock_bh() section, but cancel_work_sync() may sleep and therefore
cannot be called from within a spinlock-protected region.

Restructure the loop to handle one entry per spinlock critical section:
acquire the lock, find the next entry to purge, remove it from the hash
list, then release the lock before calling cancel_work_sync() and
dropping the hash_entry reference. Repeat until no more entries require
purging.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 23721387c4 ("batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code")
Reviewed-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 09:09:34 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann aa3153bd13 batman-adv: iv: recover OGM scheduling after forward packet error
When batadv_iv_ogm_schedule_buff() fails to allocate and queue a forward
packet for OGM transmission, the work item that drives periodic OGM
scheduling is never re-armed. This silently halts transmission of the
node's own OGMs on the affected interface — only OGMs from other peers
continue to be aggregated and forwarded.

Fix this by tracking whether batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add() (and transitively
batadv_iv_ogm_aggregate_new()) successfully scheduled a forward packet.
When scheduling fails, batadv_iv_ogm_schedule_buff() falls back to queuing
a dedicated recovery work item (reschedule_work) that fires after one
originator interval and calls batadv_iv_ogm_schedule() again.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: c6c8fea297 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 09:09:29 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 20c2d6a20c 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: ab49886e3d ("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>
2026-05-19 08:44:24 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann ff24f2ecfd batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid role confusion in tp_list
Session lookups in tp_list matched only on destination address (and
optionally session ID), leaving role validation to the caller. If two
sessions with the same other_end coexisted (one as sender, one as receiver)
a lookup could silently return the wrong one, causing the caller's role to
bail out early, potentially skipping necessary cleanup.

Move the role check into the lookup functions themselves so the correct
entry is always returned, or none at all. Since batadv_tp_start()
legitimately needs to detect any active session to a destination regardless
of role, introduce a dedicated helper for that case rather than bending the
existing lookup semantics.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 33a3bb4a33 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 08:24:30 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 71dce47f07 batman-adv: tp_meter: fix race condition in send error reporting
batadv_tp_sender_shutdown() previously used two separate variables to track
session state: sending (an atomic flag indicating whether the session was
active) and reason (a plain enum storing the stop reason). This introduced
a race window between the two writes: after sending was cleared to 0,
batadv_tp_send() could observe the stopped state and call
batadv_tp_sender_end() before reason was written, causing the wrong stop
reason to be reported to the caller.

Fix this by consolidating both variables into a single atomic send_result,
which holds 0 while the session is running and the stop reason once it
ends.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 33a3bb4a33 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 08:24:23 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann f50487e356 batman-adv: tvlv: reject oversized TVLV packets
batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append() builds a TVLV packet section from
the tvlv.container_list. The total size of this section is computed by
batadv_tvlv_container_list_size(), which sums the sizes of all registered
containers.

The return type and accumulator in batadv_tvlv_container_list_size() were
u16. If the accumulated size exceeds U16_MAX, the value wraps around,
causing the subsequent allocation in batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append()
to be undersized. The memcpy-style copy that follows would then write
beyond the end of the allocated buffer, corrupting kernel memory.

Fix this by widening the return type of batadv_tvlv_container_list_size()
to size_t. In batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append(), check the computed length
against U16_MAX before proceeding, and bail out as if the allocation had
failed when the limit is exceeded.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: ef26157747 ("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 08:16:58 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 5013685065 batman-adv: tvlv: abort OGM send on tvlv append failure
batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append() could fail in two ways: a memory
allocation failure when resizing the packet buffer, or the tvlv data
exceeding U16_MAX bytes. In both cases the function previously returned the
old (now stale) tvlv_value_len rather than signalling an error, causing the
OGM/OGM2 send path to transmit a packet whose TVLV length field no longer
matched the actual buffer contents. And because it also didn't fill in the
new TVLV data, sending either uninitialized or corrupted data on the wire.

All errors in batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append() must be forwarded to the
caller. And the caller must abort the send of the OGM2. For B.A.T.M.A.N.
IV, it is currently not allowed to abort the send. The non-TVLV part of the
OGM must be queued up instead.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: ef26157747 ("batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 08:16:21 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann f8ce8b8331 batman-adv: v: stop OGMv2 on disabled interface
When a batadv_hard_iface is disabled, its mesh_iface pointer is set to
NULL. However, batadv_v_ogm_send_meshif() may still dispatch OGMs via
batadv_v_ogm_queue_on_if() for interfaces that have since lost their
mesh_iface association. This results in a NULL pointer dereference when
batadv_v_ogm_queue_on_if() unconditionally calls netdev_priv() on the
now NULL hard_iface->mesh_iface to retrieve the batadv_priv.

It is necessary to ensure that the batadv_v_ogm_queue_on_if() checks that
it is using the same mesh_iface for which batadv_v_ogm_send_meshif() was
called.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 0da0035942 ("batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-19 08:14:53 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 0039ac8305 batman-adv: fix batadv_skb_is_frag() kernel-doc
The kernel-doc comment for batadv_skb_is_frag() contained two errors:

* the function description referred to "gain a unicast packet" instead
  of "contains unicast fragment".
* the Return section omitted "merged" from "newly skb", leaving the
  description grammatically incorrect and inconsistent with the
  function description.

Fixes: bc62216dc8 ("batman-adv: frag: disallow unicast fragment in fragment")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-16 22:15:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann d5487249a8 batman-adv: tp_meter: directly shut down timer on cleanup
batadv_tp_sender_cleanup() was calling timer_delete_sync() followed by
timer_delete() to guard against the timer handler re-arming itself between
the two calls. This double-deletion hack relied on the sending status being
set to 0 to suppress re-arming.

Replace both calls with a single timer_shutdown_sync(). This function both
waits for any running timer callback to complete (like timer_delete_sync())
and permanently disarms the timer so it cannot be re-armed afterwards,
making re-arming prevention unconditional and self-documenting.

The re-arming property is also required because otherwise:

1. context 0 (batadv_tp_recv_ack()) checks in
   batadv_tp_reset_sender_timer() if sending is still 1 -> it is
2. context 1 changes in batadv_tp_sender_shutdown() sending to 0 and in
   this process forces the kthread to stop timer in
   batadv_tp_sender_cleanup()
3. context 0 continues in batadv_tp_reset_sender_timer() and rearms the
   timer -> but the reference for it is already gone

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 33a3bb4a33 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-15 10:41:55 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann bc62216dc8 batman-adv: frag: disallow unicast fragment in fragment
batadv_frag_skb_buffer() is called by batadv_batman_skb_recv() when a
BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet is received. Once all fragments are collected
and the packet is reassembled, batadv_recv_frag_packet() calls
batadv_batman_skb_recv() again to process the defragmented payload.

A malicious sender can craft a BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet whose reassembled
payload is itself a BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet (matryoshka-style nesting).
Each nesting level recurses through batadv_batman_skb_recv() without bound,
growing the kernel stack until it is exhausted.

Since refragmentation or fragments in fragments are not actually allowed,
discard all packets which are still BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packets after the
defragmentation process.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 610bfc6bc9 ("batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-15 10:41:49 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 6c65cf23d4 batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid use of uninit sender vars
batadv_tp_recv_ack() and batadv_tp_stop() are only valid for tp_vars in the
BATADV_TP_SENDER role. When called with a BATADV_TP_RECEIVER role, it
proceeds to read sender-only members that were never initialized, leading
to undefined behavior.

This can be triggered when a node that is currently acting as a receiver in
an ongoing tp_meter session receives a malicious ACK packet.

Guard against this by checking tp_vars->role immediately after the
lookup and bailing out if it is not BATADV_TP_SENDER, before any of
those members are accessed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 33a3bb4a33 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-14 20:01:31 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 2d8826a2d3 batman-adv: dat: handle forward allocation error
batadv_dat_forward_data() calls pskb_copy_for_clone() to duplicate an skb
for each DHT candidate, but does not check the return value before passing
it to batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast_4addr(). That function dereferences
the skb unconditionally, so a failed allocation triggers a NULL pointer
dereference.

Skip forwarding to the current DHT candidate on allocation failure.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 785ea11441 ("batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-14 20:01:31 +02:00
Ruijie LiandSven Eckelmann a340a51ed8 batman-adv: clear current gateway during teardown
batadv_gw_node_free() removes the gateway list entries during mesh teardown,
but it does not clear the currently selected gateway. This leaves stale
gateway state behind across cleanup and can break a later mesh recreation.

Clear bat_priv->gw.curr_gw before walking the gateway list so the selected
gateway reference is dropped as part of teardown.

Fixes: 2265c14108 ("batman-adv: gateway election code refactoring")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ruijie Li <ruijieli51@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhanpeng Li <lzhanpeng2025@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-14 18:48:40 +02:00
Ruide CaoandSven Eckelmann 9cd3f16c32 batman-adv: fix fragment reassembly length accounting
batman-adv keeps a running payload length for queued fragments and uses it
to validate a fragment chain before reassembly.

That accounting currently allows the accumulated fragment length to be
truncated during updates. As a result, malformed fragment chains can
bypass the intended validation and drive reassembly with inconsistent
length state, leading to a local denial of service.

Fix the accounting by storing the accumulated length in a length-typed
field and rejecting update overflows before the existing validation logic
runs.

The fix was verified against the original reproducer and against valid
fragment reassembly paths.

Fixes: 610bfc6bc9 ("batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ruide Cao <caoruide123@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-14 18:33:29 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 99d9958fa1 batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV entry number overflow
The helpers to prepare the buffers for the local and global TT based
replies are trying to sum up all TT entries which can be found for each
VLAN. In theory, this sum can be too big for an u16 and therefore overflow.
A too small buffer would then be allocated for the TVLV.

The too small buffer will be handled gracefully by
batadv_tt_tvlv_generate() and is not causing a buffer overflow - just a
truncated reply. But this overflow shouldn't have happened in the first and
the too small buffer should never have been allocated when an overflow was
detected.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 7ea7b4a142 ("batman-adv: make the TT CRC logic VLAN specific")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-12 08:33:53 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann fa1bd70494 batman-adv: tt: avoid empty VLAN responses
The commit 16116dac23 ("batman-adv: prevent TT request storms by not
sending inconsistent TT TLVLs") added checks to the local (direct) TT
response code. But the response can also be done indirectly by another node
using the global TT state. To avoid such inconsistency states reported in
the original fix, also avoid sending empty VLANs for replies from the
global TT state.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 7ea7b4a142 ("batman-adv: make the TT CRC logic VLAN specific")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-12 08:33:53 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 94d2700501 batman-adv: tt: fix TOCTOU race for reported vlans
The local TT based TVLV is generated by first checking the number of VLANs
which have at least one TT entry. A new buffer with the correct size for
the VLANs is then allocated. Only then, the list of VLANs s used to fill
the VLAN entries in the buffer. During this time, the meshif_vlan_list_lock
is held. But the actual number of TT entries of each VLAN can still
increase during this time - just not the number of VLANs in the list.

But the prefilter used in the buffer size calculation might still cause an
increase of the number of VLANs which need to be stored. Simply because a
VLAN might now suddenly have at least one entry when it had none in the
pre-alloc check - and then needs to occupy space which was not allocated.

It is better to overestimate the buffer size at the beginning and then fill
the buffer only with the VLANs which are not empty.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 16116dac23 ("batman-adv: prevent TT request storms by not sending inconsistent TT TLVLs")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-12 08:33:53 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann fc92cdfcb2 batman-adv: tt: fix negative last_changeset_len
batadv_piv_tt::last_changeset_len len was declared as s16, but the field is
never intended to hold a negative value. When a value greater than 32767 is
assigned, it wraps to a negative signed integer.

In batadv_send_my_tt_response(), last_changeset_len is temporarily widened
to s32. The incorrectly negative s16 value propagates into the s32, causing
batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data() to allocate a full sized buffer but
populates only a small portion of it with the collected changeset. All
remaining bits are kept uninitialized.

Using an u16 avoids this type confusion and ensures that no (negative) sign
extension is performed in batadv_send_my_tt_response().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: a73105b8d4 ("batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-12 08:33:52 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann b64963a2ce batman-adv: tt: fix negative tt_buff_len
batadv_orig_node::tt_buff_len was declared as s16, but the field is never
intended to hold a negative value. When a value greater than 32767 is
assigned, it wraps to a negative signed integer.

In batadv_send_other_tt_response(), tt_buff_len is temporarily widened to
s32. The incorrectly negative s16 value propagates into the s32, causing
batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_global_data() to allocate a full sized buffer but
populates only a small portion of it with the collected changeset. All
remaining bits are kept uninitialized.

Using an u16 avoids this type confusion and ensures that no (negative) sign
extension is performed in batadv_send_other_tt_response().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: a73105b8d4 ("batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-12 08:33:52 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 1e9fab756f batman-adv: tt: reject oversized local TVLV buffers
The commit 3a359bf5c6 ("batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response
buffers") added a check to ensure that a global return buffer size can be
stored in an u16. The same buffer handling also exists for the local data
buffer but was not touched.

A similar check should be also be in place for the local TVLV buffer. It
doesn't have the similar attack surface because it is only generated from
locally discovered MAC addresses but the dynamic nature could still cause
temporarily to large buffers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 7ea7b4a142 ("batman-adv: make the TT CRC logic VLAN specific")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-12 08:33:52 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 77098e4bea batman-adv: tp_meter: fix tp_vars reference leak in receiver shutdown
The receiver shutdown timer handler, batadv_tp_receiver_shutdown(), is
responsible for releasing the tp_vars reference it holds. However, the
existing logic for coordinating this release with batadv_tp_stop_all() was
flawed.

timer_shutdown_sync() guarantees the timer will not fire again after it
returns, but it returns non-zero only when the timer was pending at the
time of the call. If the timer had already expired (and
batadv_tp_stop_all() would unsucessfully try to  rearm itself),
batadv_tp_stop_all() skips its batadv_tp_vars_put(), and
batadv_tp_receiver_shutdown() fails to put its own reference as well.

Fix this by introducing a new atomic variable receiving that is set to 1
when the receiver is initialized and cleared atomically with atomic_xchg()
by whichever side claims it first. Only the side that observes the
transition from 1 to 0 is responsible for releasing the tp_vars timer
reference, eliminating the uncertainty.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 3d3cf6a731 ("batman-adv: stop tp_meter sessions during mesh teardown")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-11 19:54:49 +02:00
Luxiao XuandSven Eckelmann 94f3b13316 batman-adv: fix tp_meter counter underflow during shutdown
batadv_tp_sender_shutdown() unconditionally decrements the "sending"
atomic counter. If multiple paths (e.g. timeout, user cancel, and
normal finish) call this function, the counter can underflow to -1.

Since the sender logic treats any non-zero value as "still sending",
a negative value causes the sender kthread to loop indefinitely.
This leads to a use-after-free when the interface is removed while
the zombie thread is still active.

Fix this by using atomic_xchg() to ensure the counter only transitions
from 1 to 0 once.

Fixes: 33a3bb4a33 ("batman-adv: throughput meter implementation")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Luxiao Xu <rakukuip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
[sven: added missing change in batadv_tp_send]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2026-05-11 19:52:40 +02:00