batman-adv: Reduce tt_global hash refcnt only for removed entry

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commit f131a56880 upstream.

The batadv_hash_remove is a function which searches the hashtable for an
entry using a needle, a hashtable bucket selection function and a compare
function. It will lock the bucket list and delete an entry when the compare
function matches it with the needle. It returns the pointer to the
hlist_node which matches or NULL when no entry matches the needle.

The batadv_tt_global_free is not itself protected in anyway to avoid that
any other function is modifying the hashtable between the search for the
entry and the call to batadv_hash_remove. It can therefore happen that the
entry either doesn't exist anymore or an entry was deleted which is not the
same object as the needle. In such an situation, the reference counter (for
the reference stored in the hashtable) must not be reduced for the needle.
Instead the reference counter of the actually removed entry has to be
reduced.

Otherwise the reference counter will underflow and the object might be
freed before all its references were dropped. The kref helpers reported
this problem as:

  refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.

Fixes: 7683fdc1e8 ("batman-adv: protect the local and the global trans-tables with rcu")
Reported-by: Martin Weinelt <martin@linuxlounge.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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Sven Eckelmann 2019-02-23 14:27:10 +01:00 • committed by Ben Hutchings

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