Merge tag 'batadv-net-pullrequest-20260225' of https://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge

Simon Wunderlich says:

====================
Here is a batman-adv bugfix:

 - Avoid double-rtnl_lock ELP metric worker, by Sven Eckelmann

* tag 'batadv-net-pullrequest-20260225' of https://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge:
  batman-adv: Avoid double-rtnl_lock ELP metric worker
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225084614.229077-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
index 2ce4e5bf9292..fdc2abe96d77 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
@@ -111,7 +111,15 @@ static bool batadv_v_elp_get_throughput(struct batadv_hardif_neigh_node *neigh,
 			/* unsupported WiFi driver version */
 			goto default_throughput;
 
-		real_netdev = batadv_get_real_netdev(hard_iface->net_dev);
+		/* only use rtnl_trylock because the elp worker will be cancelled while
+		 * the rntl_lock is held. the cancel_delayed_work_sync() would otherwise
+		 * wait forever when the elp work_item was started and it is then also
+		 * trying to rtnl_lock
+		 */
+		if (!rtnl_trylock())
+			return false;
+		real_netdev = __batadv_get_real_netdev(hard_iface->net_dev);
+		rtnl_unlock();
 		if (!real_netdev)
 			goto default_throughput;
 
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index 7b7640f3ffe2..d6732c34aeaf 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static bool batadv_is_valid_iface(const struct net_device *net_dev)
 }
 
 /**
- * batadv_get_real_netdevice() - check if the given netdev struct is a virtual
+ * __batadv_get_real_netdev() - check if the given netdev struct is a virtual
  *  interface on top of another 'real' interface
  * @netdev: the device to check
  *
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static bool batadv_is_valid_iface(const struct net_device *net_dev)
  * Return: the 'real' net device or the original net device and NULL in case
  *  of an error.
  */
-static struct net_device *batadv_get_real_netdevice(struct net_device *netdev)
+struct net_device *__batadv_get_real_netdev(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface = NULL;
 	struct net_device *real_netdev = NULL;
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ struct net_device *batadv_get_real_netdev(struct net_device *net_device)
 	struct net_device *real_netdev;
 
 	rtnl_lock();
-	real_netdev = batadv_get_real_netdevice(net_device);
+	real_netdev = __batadv_get_real_netdev(net_device);
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	return real_netdev;
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static u32 batadv_wifi_flags_evaluate(struct net_device *net_device)
 	if (batadv_is_cfg80211_netdev(net_device))
 		wifi_flags |= BATADV_HARDIF_WIFI_CFG80211_DIRECT;
 
-	real_netdev = batadv_get_real_netdevice(net_device);
+	real_netdev = __batadv_get_real_netdev(net_device);
 	if (!real_netdev)
 		return wifi_flags;
 
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.h b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.h
index 9db8a310961e..9ba8fb2bdceb 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.h
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ enum batadv_hard_if_bcast {
 
 extern struct notifier_block batadv_hard_if_notifier;
 
+struct net_device *__batadv_get_real_netdev(struct net_device *net_device);
 struct net_device *batadv_get_real_netdev(struct net_device *net_device);
 bool batadv_is_cfg80211_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface);
 bool batadv_is_wifi_hardif(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface);