cf52572ebb
There are two problems with nft_compat since the netlink config
plane uses a per-netns mutex:
1. Concurrent add/del accesses to the same list
2. accesses to a list element after it has been free'd already.
This patch fixes the first problem.
Freeing occurs from a work queue, after transaction mutexes have been
released, i.e., it still possible for a new transaction (even from
same net ns) to find the to-be-deleted expression in the list.
The ->destroy functions are not allowed to have any such side effects,
i.e. the list_del() in the destroy function is not allowed.
This part of the problem is solved in the next patch.
I tried to make this work by serializing list access via mutex
and by moving list_del() to a deactivate callback, but
Taehee spotted following race on this approach:
NET #0 NET #1
>select_ops()
->init()
->select_ops()
->deactivate()
->destroy()
nft_xt_put()
kfree_rcu(xt, rcu_head);
->init() <-- use-after-free occurred.
Unfortunately, we can't increment reference count in
select_ops(), because we can't undo the refcount increase in
case a different expression fails in the same batch.
(The destroy hook will only be called in case the expression
was initialized successfully).
Fixes:
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| LICENSES | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
README
Linux kernel
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