netdev - [PATCH net] batman-adv: Hold rtnl lock during MTU update via netlink

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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:48:48 +0200
From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
 stable@...r.kernel.org, 
 syzbot+f8812454d9b3ac00d282@...kaller.appspotmail.com, 
 Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] batman-adv: Hold rtnl lock during MTU update via
 netlink

The automatic recalculation of the maximum allowed MTU is usually triggered
by code sections which are already rtnl lock protected by callers outside
of batman-adv. But when the fragmentation setting is changed via
batman-adv's own batadv genl family, then the rtnl lock is not yet taken.

But dev_set_mtu requires that the caller holds the rtnl lock because it
uses netdevice notifiers. And this code will then fail the check for this
lock:

  RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (1953)

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+f8812454d9b3ac00d282@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c6a953cce8d0 ("batman-adv: Trigger events for auto adjusted MTU")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
---
This problem was just identified by syzbot [1]. I hope it is ok to directly
send this patch to netdev instead of creating a single-patch PR from
the batadv/net branch. If you still prefer a PR then we can also prepare
it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/0000000000009bbb4b0603717cde@google.com
---
 net/batman-adv/netlink.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/netlink.c b/net/batman-adv/netlink.c
index ad5714f737be..6efbc9275aec 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/netlink.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/netlink.c
@@ -495,7 +495,10 @@ static int batadv_netlink_set_mesh(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		attr = info->attrs[BATADV_ATTR_FRAGMENTATION_ENABLED];

 		atomic_set(&bat_priv->fragmentation, !!nla_get_u8(attr));
+
+		rtnl_lock();
 		batadv_update_min_mtu(bat_priv->soft_iface);
+		rtnl_unlock();
 	}

 	if (info->attrs[BATADV_ATTR_GW_BANDWIDTH_DOWN]) {

---
base-commit: 421d467dc2d483175bad4fb76a31b9e5a3d744cf
change-id: 20230821-batadv-missing-mtu-rtnl-lock-bc4cee67731d

Best regards,
-- 
Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>