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CVE-2021-47482

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2021
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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net: batman-adv: fix error handling

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: batman-adv: fix error handling Syzbot reported ODEBUG warning in batadv_nc_mesh_free(). The problem was in wrong error handling in batadv_mesh_init(). Before this patch batadv_mesh_init() was calling batadv_mesh_free() in case of any batadv_*_init() calls failure. This approach may work well, when there is some kind of indicator, which can tell which parts of batadv are initialized; but there isn't any. All written above lead to cleaning up uninitialized fields. Even if we hide ODEBUG warning by initializing bat_priv->nc.work, syzbot was able to hit GPF in batadv_nc_purge_paths(), because hash pointer in still NULL. [1] To fix these bugs we can unwind batadv_*_init() calls one by one. It is good approach for 2 reasons: 1) It fixes bugs on error handling path 2) It improves the performance, since we won't call unneeded batadv_*_free() functions. So, this patch makes all batadv_*_init() clean up all allocated memory before returning with an error to no call correspoing batadv_*_free() and open-codes batadv_mesh_free() with proper order to avoid touching uninitialized fields.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgit0c6b199f09be489c48622537a550787fc80aea73UnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgit07533f1a673ce1126d0a72ef1e4b5eaaa3dd6d20UnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgite50f957652190b5a88a8ebce7e5ab14ebd0d3f00UnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgitfbf150b16a3635634b7dfb7f229d8fcd643c6c51UnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgit6422e8471890273994fe8cc6d452b0dcd2c9483eUnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgitb0a2cd38553c77928ef1646ed1518486b1e70ae8UnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgita8f7359259dd5923adc6129284fdad12fc5db347UnavailableNone listed
c6c8fea29769d998d94fcec9b9f14d4b52b349d3affectedgit6f68cd634856f8ca93bafd623ba5357e0f648c68UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.38affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.38UnavailableNone listed
4.4.293unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.4.*None listed
4.9.289unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.9.*None listed
4.14.254unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.215unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.157unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.77unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.14.16unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.14.*None listed
5.15unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed