Can be called via nft set element list iteration, which may acquire rcu and/or bh read lock (depends on set type). BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:3353 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1232, name: nft preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 2 locks held by nft/1232: #0: ffff8881180e3ea8 (&nft_net->commit_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: nf_tables_valid_genid #1: ffffffff83f5f540 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire Call Trace: nft_chain_validate nft_lookup_validate_setelem nft_pipapo_walk nft_lookup_validate nft_chain_validate nft_immediate_validate nft_chain_validate nf_tables_validate nf_tables_abort No choice but to move it to nf_tables_validate(). Fixes: 81ea01066741 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add rescheduling points during loop detection walks") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 79c7eee33dcd..41e7d21d4429 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -3685,8 +3685,6 @@ int nft_chain_validate(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_chain *chain) if (err < 0) return err; } - - cond_resched(); } return 0; @@ -3710,6 +3708,8 @@ static int nft_table_validate(struct net *net, const struct nft_table *table) err = nft_chain_validate(&ctx, chain); if (err < 0) return err; + + cond_resched(); } return 0; -- 2.41.0