4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch
[ Upstream commit 5af96b9c59c72fb2af2d19c5cc2f3cdcee391dff ]
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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c @@ -1767,6 +1767,7 @@ batadv_bla_loopdetect_check(struct batad { struct batadv_bla_backbone_gw *backbone_gw; struct ethhdr *ethhdr; + bool ret;
ethhdr = eth_hdr(skb);
@@ -1790,8 +1791,13 @@ batadv_bla_loopdetect_check(struct batad 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; }