Subject: batman-adv: Don't expect inter-netns unique iflink indices
From: Sven Eckelmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 19:49:46 +0100

The ifindex doesn't have to be unique for multiple network namespaces on
the same machine.

  $ ip netns add test1
  $ ip -net test1 link add dummy1 type dummy
  $ ip netns add test2
  $ ip -net test2 link add dummy2 type dummy

  $ ip -net test1 link show dev dummy1
  6: dummy1: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 96:81:55:1e:dd:85 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  $ ip -net test2 link show dev dummy2
  6: dummy2: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 5a:3c:af:35:07:c3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

But the batman-adv code to walk through the various layers of virtual
interfaces uses this assumption because dev_get_iflink handles it
internally and doesn't return the actual netns of the iflink. And
dev_get_iflink only documents the situation where ifindex == iflink for
physical devices.

But only checking for dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_iflink is also not an option
because ipoib_get_iflink implements it even when it sometimes returns an
iflink != ifindex and sometimes iflink == ifindex. The caller must
therefore make sure itself to check both netns and iflink + ifindex for
equality. Only when they are equal, a "physical" interface was detected
which should stop the traversal. On the other hand, vxcan_get_iflink can
also return 0 in case there was currently no valid peer. In this case, it
is still necessary to stop.

Fixes: 3d48811b27f5 ("batman-adv: prevent using any virtual device created on batman-adv as hard-interface")
Fixes: 2b45bb6c3aad ("batman-adv: additional checks for virtual interfaces on top of WiFi")
Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email-masked]>
Origin: upstream, https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/0aac7a9fbbbeec25f2f54a9e6d53ea91217ba720

--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -156,13 +156,15 @@ static bool batadv_is_on_batman_iface(co
 		return true;
 
 	iflink = dev_get_iflink(net_dev);
-
-	/* no more parents..stop recursion */
-	if (iflink == 0 || iflink == net_dev->ifindex)
+	if (iflink == 0)
 		return false;
 
 	parent_net = batadv_getlink_net(net_dev, net);
 
+	/* iflink to itself, most likely physical device */
+	if (net == parent_net && iflink == net_dev->ifindex)
+		return false;
+
 	/* recurse over the parent device */
 	parent_dev = __dev_get_by_index((struct net *)parent_net, iflink);
 	/* if we got a NULL parent_dev there is something broken.. */
@@ -222,8 +224,7 @@ static struct net_device *batadv_get_rea
 		return NULL;
 
 	iflink = dev_get_iflink(netdev);
-
-	if (netdev->ifindex == iflink) {
+	if (iflink == 0) {
 		dev_hold(netdev);
 		return netdev;
 	}
@@ -234,6 +235,14 @@ static struct net_device *batadv_get_rea
 
 	net = dev_net(hard_iface->soft_iface);
 	real_net = batadv_getlink_net(netdev, net);
+
+	/* iflink to itself, most likely physical device */
+	if (net == real_net && netdev->ifindex == iflink) {
+		real_netdev = netdev;
+		dev_hold(real_netdev);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	real_netdev = dev_get_by_index(real_net, iflink);
 
 out: