[PATCH net 4/9] batman-adv: tt: avoid request storms during pending request

Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 11:18:16 +0200
Newsgroups org.open-mesh.lists.batman,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>

batadv_send_tt_request() allocates a tt_req_node when none exists for the
destination originator node. This should prevent that a multiple TT
requests are send at the same time to an originator.

But if allocation of the send buffer failed, this request must be cleaned
up again. But indicator for such a failure is "ret == false". But the
actual implementation is checking for "ret == true".

The check must be inverted to not loose the information about the TT
request directly after it was attempted to be sent out. This should avoid
potential request storms.

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 335fbe0f5d25 ("batman-adv: tvlv - convert tt query packet to use tvlv unicast packets")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
---
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
index 4bfad36a4b704..aae72015645a4 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -2971,7 +2971,7 @@ static bool batadv_send_tt_request(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 out:
 	batadv_hardif_put(primary_if);
 
-	if (ret && tt_req_node) {
+	if (!ret && tt_req_node) {
 		spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->tt.req_list_lock);
 		if (!hlist_unhashed(&tt_req_node->list)) {
 			hlist_del_init(&tt_req_node->list);
-- 
2.47.3