CVE-2024-40981 — batman-adv: bypass empty buckets in batadv_purge_orig_ref()

2026-09-28T23:38:41.769836+00:00

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

batman-adv: bypass empty buckets in batadv_purge_orig_ref()

Many syzbot reports are pointing to soft lockups in batadv_purge_orig_ref() [1]

Root cause is unknown, but we can avoid spending too much time there and perhaps get more interesting reports.

[1]

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 27s! [kworker/u4:6:621] Modules linked in: irq event stamp: 6182794 hardirqs last enabled at (6182793): [] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x224/0x44c kernel/softirq.c:386 hardirqs last disabled at (6182794): [] __el1_irq arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:533 [inline] hardirqs last disabled at (6182794): [] el1_interrupt+0x24/0x68 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:551 softirqs last enabled at (6182792): [] spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline] softirqs last enabled at (6182792): [] batadv_purge_orig_ref+0x114c/0x1228 net/batman-adv/originator.c:1287 softirqs last disabled at (6182790): [] spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline] softirqs last disabled at (6182790): [] batadv_purge_orig_ref+0x164/0x1228 net/batman-adv/originator.c:1271 CPU: 0 PID: 621 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-syzkaller-g707081b61156 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/29/2024 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_purge_orig pstate: 80400005 (N…

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CVE-2024-40981 — batman-adv: bypass empty buckets in batadv_purge_orig_ref()