From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> xt_replace_table relies on table replacement counter retrieval (which uses xt_recseq to synchronize pcpu counters). This is fine, however with large rule set get_counters() can take a very long time -- it needs to synchronize all counters because it has to assume concurrent modifications can occur. Make xt_replace_table synchronize by itself by waiting until all cpus had an even seqcount. This allows a followup patch to copy the counters of the old ruleset without any synchonization after xt_replace_table has completed. Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index c83a3b5e1c6c..a164e5123d59 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@ xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table, int *error) { struct xt_table_info *private; + unsigned int cpu; int ret; ret = xt_jumpstack_alloc(newinfo); @@ -1182,14 +1183,28 @@ xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table, smp_wmb(); table->private = newinfo; + /* make sure all cpus see new ->private value */ + smp_wmb(); + /* * Even though table entries have now been swapped, other CPU's - * may still be using the old entries. This is okay, because - * resynchronization happens because of the locking done - * during the get_counters() routine. + * may still be using the old entries... */ local_bh_enable(); + /* ... so wait for even xt_recseq on all cpus */ + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { + seqcount_t *s = &per_cpu(xt_recseq, cpu); + u32 seq = raw_read_seqcount(s); + + if (seq & 1) { + do { + cond_resched(); + cpu_relax(); + } while (seq == raw_read_seqcount(s)); + } + } + #ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT if (audit_enabled) { audit_log(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html