4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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+c764de0fcfadca9a8595@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
#include "hard-interface.h"
#include "main.h"
-#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/byteorder/generic.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -104,8 +103,10 @@ static bool batadv_is_on_batman_iface(co
/* recurse over the parent device */
parent_dev = __dev_get_by_index(&init_net, dev_get_iflink(net_dev));
/* 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);
