Bug 2502238 (CVE-2026-63835) - CVE-2026-63835 kernel: batman-adv: v: prevent OGM aggregation on disabled hardif
Summary: CVE-2026-63835 kernel: batman-adv: v: prevent OGM aggregation on disabled hardif
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63835
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-19 13:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 16:48 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 13:03:25 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: v: prevent OGM aggregation on disabled hardif

When an interface gets disabled, the worker is correctly disabled by
batadv_hardif_disable_interface() -> ... -> batadv_v_ogm_iface_disable().
In this process, the skb aggr_list is also freed.

But batadv_v_ogm_send_meshif() can still queue new skbs (via
batadv_v_ogm_queue_on_if()) to the aggr_list. This will only stop after all
cores can no longer find the RCU protected list of hard interfaces. These
queued skbs will never be freed or consumed by batadv_v_ogm_aggr_work.

The batadv_v_ogm_iface_disable() function must block
batadv_v_ogm_queue_on_if() to avoid leak of skbs.


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