batman-adv: Avoid WARN on net_device without parent in netns

It is not allowed to use WARN* helpers on potential incorrect input from
the user or transient problems because systems configured as panic_on_warn
will reboot due to such a problem.

A NULL return value of __dev_get_by_index can be caused by various problems
which can either be related to the system configuration or problems
(incorrectly returned network namespaces) in other (virtual) net_device
drivers. batman-adv should not cause a (harmful) WARN in this situation and
instead only report it via a simple message.

Fixes: b7eddd0b3950 ("batman-adv: prevent using any virtual device created on batman-adv as hard-interface")
Reported-by: syzbot+c764de0fcfadca9a8595@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index 508f4416dfc9..415d494cbe22 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include "main.h"
 
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
-#include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/byteorder/generic.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
@@ -179,8 +178,10 @@ static bool batadv_is_on_batman_iface(const struct net_device *net_dev)
         parent_dev = __dev_get_by_index((struct net *)parent_net,
                                         dev_get_iflink(net_dev));
         /* if we got a NULL parent_dev there is something broken.. */
-        if (WARN(!parent_dev, "Cannot find parent device"))
+        if (!parent_dev) {
+                pr_err("Cannot find parent device\n");
                 return false;
+        }
 
         if (batadv_mutual_parents(net_dev, net, parent_dev, parent_net))
                 return false;