3.16.66-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>
commit 955d3411a17f590364238bd0d3329b61f20c1cd2 upstream.
It is not allowed to use WARN* helpers on potential incorrect input from
the user or transient problems because systems configured as panic_on_warn
will reboot due to such a problem.
A NULL return value of __dev_get_by_index can be caused by various problems
which can either be related to the system configuration or problems
(incorrectly returned network namespaces) in other (virtual) net_device
drivers. batman-adv should not cause a (harmful) WARN in this situation and
instead only report it via a simple message.
Fixes: b7eddd0b3950 ("batman-adv: prevent using any virtual device created on
batman-adv as hard-interface")
Reported-by: syzbot+c764de0fcfadca9a8...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <s...@simonwunderlich.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -89,8 +89,10 @@ static bool batadv_is_on_batman_iface(co
/* recurse over the parent device */
parent_dev = __dev_get_by_index(&init_net, net_dev->iflink);
/* if we got a NULL parent_dev there is something broken.. */
- if (WARN(!parent_dev, "Cannot find parent device"))
+ if (!parent_dev) {
+ pr_err("Cannot find parent device\n");
return false;
+ }
ret = batadv_is_on_batman_iface(parent_dev);
