kernel/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c, branch linux-rolling-lts

batman-adv: Avoid double-rtnl_lock ELP metric worker

2026-03-19T15:08:37Z

commit cfc83a3c71517b59c1047db57da31e26a9dc2f33 upstream. batadv_v_elp_get_throughput() might be called when the RTNL lock is already held. This could be problematic when the work queue item is cancelled via cancel_delayed_work_sync() in batadv_v_elp_iface_disable(). In this case, an rtnl_lock() would cause a deadlock. To avoid this, rtnl_trylock() was used in this function to skip the retrieval of the ethtool information in case the RTNL lock was already held. But for cfg80211 interfaces, batadv_get_real_netdev() was called - which also uses rtnl_lock(). The approach for __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() must also be used instead and the lockless version __batadv_get_real_netdev() has to be called. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8c8ecc98f5c6 ("batman-adv: Drop unmanaged ELP metric worker") Reported-by: Christian Schmidbauer Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Tested-by: Sören Skaarup Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

batman-adv: remove includes for extern declarations

2025-09-05T13:11:02Z

It is not necessary to include the header for the struct definition for an "extern " declaration. It can simply be dropped from the headers to reduce the number of includes the preprocessor has to process. If needed, it can be added to the actual C source file. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: store hard_iface as iflink private data

2025-05-31T08:41:11Z

By passing the hard_iface to netdev_master_upper_dev_link() as private data, we can iterate over hardifs of a mesh interface more efficiently using netdev_for_each_lower_private*() (instead of iterating over the global hardif list). In addition, this will enable resolving a hardif from its netdev using netdev_lower_dev_get_private() and getting rid of the global list altogether in the following patches. A similar approach can be seen in the bonding driver. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

Merge tag 'batadv-net-pullrequest-20250509' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge

2025-05-10T00:09:39Z

Simon Wunderlich says: ==================== Here is a batman-adv bugfix: - fix duplicate MAC address check, by Matthias Schiffer * tag 'batadv-net-pullrequest-20250509' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge: batman-adv: fix duplicate MAC address check ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250509090240.107796-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

batman-adv: fix duplicate MAC address check

2025-04-16T18:52:33Z

batadv_check_known_mac_addr() is both too lenient and too strict: - It is called from batadv_hardif_add_interface(), which means that it checked interfaces that are not used for batman-adv at all. Move it to batadv_hardif_enable_interface(). Also, restrict it to hardifs of the same mesh interface; different mesh interfaces should not interact at all. The batadv_check_known_mac_addr() argument is changed from `struct net_device` to `struct batadv_hard_iface` to achieve this. - The check only cares about hardifs in BATADV_IF_ACTIVE and BATADV_IF_TO_BE_ACTIVATED states, but interfaces in BATADV_IF_INACTIVE state should be checked as well, or the following steps will not result in a warning then they should: - Add two interfaces in down state with different MAC addresses to a mesh as hardifs - Change the MAC addresses so they conflict - Set interfaces to up state Now there will be two active hardifs with the same MAC address, but no warning. Fix by only ignoring hardifs in BATADV_IF_NOT_IN_USE state. The RCU lock can be dropped, as we're holding RTNL anyways when the function is called. Fixes: c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol") Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Fix double-hold of meshif when getting enabled

2025-04-16T00:56:47Z

It was originally meant to replace the dev_hold with netdev_hold. But this was missed in batadv_hardif_enable_interface(). As result, there was an imbalance and a hang when trying to remove the mesh-interface with (previously) active hard-interfaces: unregister_netdevice: waiting for batadv0 to become free. Usage count = 3 Fixes: 00b35530811f ("batman-adv: adopt netdev_hold() / netdev_put()") Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: syzbot+ff3aa851d46ab82953a3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+4036165fc595a74b09b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+c35d73ce910d86c0026e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+48c14f61594bdfadb086@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+f37372d86207b3bb2941@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250414-double_hold_fix-v5-1-10e056324cde@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

batman-adv: Use consistent name for mesh interface

2025-02-22T10:36:22Z

The way how the virtual interface is called inside the batman-adv source code is not consistent. The genl headers call it meshif and the rest of the code calls is (mostly) softif. The genl definitions cannot be touched because they are part of the UAPI. But the rest of the batman-adv code can be touched to have a consistent name again. The bulk of the renaming was done using sed -i -e 's/soft\(-\|\_\| \|\)i\([nf]\)/mesh\1i\2/g' \ -e 's/SOFT\(-\|\_\| \|\)I\([NF]\)/MESH\1I\2/g' and then it was adjusted slightly when proofreading the changes. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Add support for jumbo frames

2025-02-22T10:34:52Z

Since batman-adv is not actually depending on hardware capabilities, it has no limit on the MTU. Only the lower hard interfaces can limit it. In case these have an high enough MTU or fragmentation is enabled, a higher MTU than 1500 can be enabled. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: adopt netdev_hold() / netdev_put()

2025-02-22T10:34:52Z

Add a device tracker to struct batadv_hard_iface to help debugging of network device refcount imbalances. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet [sven@narfation.org: fix kernel-doc, adopt for softif reference] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2023-08-24T17:51:39Z

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. Conflicts: include/net/inet_sock.h f866fbc842de ("ipv4: fix data-races around inet->inet_id") c274af224269 ("inet: introduce inet->inet_flags") https://lore.kernel.org/all/679ddff6-db6e-4ff6-b177-574e90d0103d@tessares.net/ Adjacent changes: drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c e74216b8def3 ("bonding: fix macvlan over alb bond support") f11e5bd159b0 ("bonding: support balance-alb with openvswitch") drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c d6499f0b7c7c ("net: bgmac: Return PTR_ERR() for fixed_phy_register()") 23a14488ea58 ("net: bgmac: Fix return value check for fixed_phy_register()") drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c 32bbe64a1386 ("net: bcmgenet: Fix return value check for fixed_phy_register()") acf50d1adbf4 ("net: bcmgenet: Return PTR_ERR() for fixed_phy_register()") net/sctp/socket.c f866fbc842de ("ipv4: fix data-races around inet->inet_id") b09bde5c3554 ("inet: move inet->mc_loop to inet->inet_frags") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski