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    net: batman-adv: fix error handling · 6f68cd63
    Pavel Skripkin authored
    Syzbot reported ODEBUG warning in batadv_nc_mesh_free(). The problem was
    in wrong error handling in batadv_mesh_init().
    
    Before this patch batadv_mesh_init() was calling batadv_mesh_free() in case
    of any batadv_*_init() calls failure. This approach may work well, when
    there is some kind of indicator, which can tell which parts of batadv are
    initialized; but there isn't any.
    
    All written above lead to cleaning up uninitialized fields. Even if we hide
    ODEBUG warning by initializing bat_priv->nc.work, syzbot was able to hit
    GPF in batadv_nc_purge_paths(), because hash pointer in still NULL. [1]
    
    To fix these bugs we can unwind batadv_*_init() calls one by one.
    It is good approach for 2 reasons: 1) It fixes bugs on error handling
    path 2) It improves the performance, since we won't call unneeded
    batadv_*_free() functions.
    
    So, this patch makes all batadv_*_init() clean up all allocated memory
    before returning with an error to no call correspoing batadv_*_free()
    and open-codes batadv_mesh_free() with proper order to avoid touching
    uninitialized fields.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/000000000000c87fbd05cef6bcb0@google.com/ [1]
    Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+28b0702ada0bf7381f58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
    Fixes: c6c8fea2 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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