From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Destroy work waits for the RCU grace period then it releases the objects with no mutex held. All releases objects follow this path for transactions, therefore, order is guaranteed and references to top-level objects in the hierarchy remain valid. However, netlink notifier might interfer with pending destroy work. rcu_barrier() is not correct because objects are not release via RCU callback. Flush destroy work before releasing objects from netlink notifier path. Fixes: d4bc8271db21 ("netfilter: nf_tables: netlink notifier might race to release objects") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index a76a62ebe9c9..d299e7aa1b96 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -11073,7 +11073,7 @@ static int nft_rcv_nl_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, gc_seq = nft_gc_seq_begin(nft_net); if (!list_empty(&nf_tables_destroy_list)) - rcu_barrier(); + nf_tables_trans_destroy_flush_work(); again: list_for_each_entry(table, &nft_net->tables, list) { if (nft_table_has_owner(table) && -- 2.41.0