From: Vladislav Efanov Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 19:16:32 +0300 Subject: batman-adv: Broken sync while rescheduling delayed work Syzkaller got a lot of crashes like: KASAN: use-after-free Write in *_timers* All of these crashes point to the same memory area: The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801f870000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192 The buggy address is located 5320 bytes inside of 8192-byte region [ffff88801f870000, ffff88801f872000) This area belongs to : batadv_priv->batadv_priv_dat->delayed_work->timer_list The reason for these issues is the lack of synchronization. Delayed work (batadv_dat_purge) schedules new timer/work while the device is being deleted. As the result new timer/delayed work is set after cancel_delayed_work_sync() was called. So after the device is freed the timer list contains pointer to already freed memory. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with syzkaller. Fixes: f6badf9eb582 ("batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - implement local storage") Signed-off-by: Vladislav Efanov Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Origin: upstream, https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/177ba85fb2d4ca2ecd30ca16803560e80e916fac --- a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c @@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ static void batadv_dat_purge(struct work */ static void batadv_dat_start_timer(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv) { - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&bat_priv->dat.work, batadv_dat_purge); queue_delayed_work(batadv_event_workqueue, &bat_priv->dat.work, msecs_to_jiffies(10000)); } @@ -819,6 +818,7 @@ int batadv_dat_init(struct batadv_priv * if (!bat_priv->dat.hash) return -ENOMEM; + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&bat_priv->dat.work, batadv_dat_purge); batadv_dat_start_timer(bat_priv); batadv_tvlv_handler_register(bat_priv, batadv_dat_tvlv_ogm_handler_v1,