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[maint,2/2] batman-adv: fix hardif_neigh refcount on queue_work() failure

Message ID 20180906214555.12272-2-mareklindner@neomailbox.ch (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Commit 85100b602c127cecf1bcfd620d20eb867d685df2
Delegated to: Simon Wunderlich
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Series [maint,1/2] batman-adv: fix backbone_gw refcount on queue_work() failure |

Commit Message

Marek Lindner Sept. 6, 2018, 9:45 p.m. UTC 
  The hardif_neigh 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>
---
 net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
index e103c759..9f481cfd 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@  static void batadv_v_elp_periodic_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct batadv_priv *bat_priv;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	u32 elp_interval;
+	bool ret;
 
 	bat_v = container_of(work, struct batadv_hard_iface_bat_v, elp_wq.work);
 	hard_iface = container_of(bat_v, struct batadv_hard_iface, bat_v);
@@ -329,8 +330,11 @@  static void batadv_v_elp_periodic_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		 * may sleep and that is not allowed in an rcu protected
 		 * context. Therefore schedule a task for that.
 		 */
-		queue_work(batadv_event_workqueue,
-			   &hardif_neigh->bat_v.metric_work);
+		ret = queue_work(batadv_event_workqueue,
+				 &hardif_neigh->bat_v.metric_work);
+
+		if (!ret)
+			batadv_hardif_neigh_put(hardif_neigh);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();