[PATCH net 6/9] batman-adv: frag: free unfragmentable packet

Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 11:18:18 +0200
Newsgroups org.open-mesh.lists.batman,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>

The caller of batadv_frag_send_packet() assume that the skb provided to the
function are always consumed. But the pre-check for an empty payload or the
zero fragment size returned an error without any further actions.

A failed pre-check must use the same error handling code as the rest of the
function.

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: ee75ed88879a ("batman-adv: Fragment and send skbs larger than mtu")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
---
 net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c b/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c
index 8a006a0473a87..13d4689d332dc 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c
@@ -518,8 +518,10 @@ int batadv_frag_send_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	mtu = min_t(unsigned int, mtu, BATADV_FRAG_MAX_FRAG_SIZE);
 	max_fragment_size = mtu - header_size;
 
-	if (skb->len == 0 || max_fragment_size == 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (skb->len == 0 || max_fragment_size == 0) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto free_skb;
+	}
 
 	num_fragments = (skb->len - 1) / max_fragment_size + 1;
 	max_fragment_size = (skb->len - 1) / num_fragments + 1;
-- 
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