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authorQian Cai <cai@lca.pw>2020-03-25 10:31:42 -0400
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2020-03-27 18:42:20 +0100
commit0a6a9515fe390976cd762c52d8d4f446d7a14285 (patch)
tree747af8ed14c5fa62034bae91cedcdcc8dab0d8a6 /net
parent133a2fe594dc0eb15a77477a5a05176495190139 (diff)
netfilter: nf_tables: silence a RCU-list warning in nft_table_lookup()
It is safe to traverse &net->nft.tables with &net->nft.commit_mutex held using list_for_each_entry_rcu(). Silence the PROVE_RCU_LIST false positive, WARNING: suspicious RCU usage net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:523 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by iptables/1384: #0: ffffffff9745c4a8 (&net->nft.commit_mutex){+.+.}, at: nf_tables_valid_genid+0x25/0x60 [nf_tables] Call Trace: dump_stack+0xa1/0xea lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x103/0x10d nft_table_lookup.part.0+0x116/0x120 [nf_tables] nf_tables_newtable+0x12c/0x7d0 [nf_tables] nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x559/0x1190 [nfnetlink] nfnetlink_rcv+0x1da/0x210 [nfnetlink] netlink_unicast+0x306/0x460 netlink_sendmsg+0x44b/0x770 ____sys_sendmsg+0x46b/0x4a0 ___sys_sendmsg+0x138/0x1a0 __sys_sendmsg+0xb6/0x130 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x48/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x69/0xf4 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3 Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index ace325218edb..c1e04ac21392 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -520,7 +520,8 @@ static struct nft_table *nft_table_lookup(const struct net *net,
if (nla == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(table, &net->nft.tables, list) {
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(table, &net->nft.tables, list,
+ lockdep_is_held(&net->nft.commit_mutex)) {
if (!nla_strcmp(nla, table->name) &&
table->family == family &&
nft_active_genmask(table, genmask))