Netfilter assumes its called with rcu_read_lock held, but in egress hook case it may be called with BH readlock. This triggers lockdep splat. In order to avoid to change all rcu_dereference() to rcu_dereference_check(..., rcu_read_lock_bh_held()), wrap nf_hook_slow with read lock/unlock pair. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h b/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h index b4dd96e4dc8d..e6487a691136 100644 --- a/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h +++ b/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h @@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *nf_hook_egress(struct sk_buff *skb, int *rc, nf_hook_state_init(&state, NF_NETDEV_EGRESS, NFPROTO_NETDEV, dev, NULL, NULL, dev_net(dev), NULL); + + /* nf assumes rcu_read_lock, not just read_lock_bh */ + rcu_read_lock(); ret = nf_hook_slow(skb, &state, e, 0); + rcu_read_unlock(); if (ret == 1) { return skb; -- 2.34.1