This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nf_tables: do not leave chain stats enabled on error
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-nf_tables-do-not-leave-chain-stats-enabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 61551c2667b174b656a843391578aeb12409d0c6
Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 21 12:41:33 2022 +0200
netfilter: nf_tables: do not leave chain stats enabled on error
[ Upstream commit 43eb8949cfdffa764b92bc6c54b87cbe5b0003fe ]
Error might occur later in the nf_tables_addchain() codepath, enable
static key only after transaction has been created.
Fixes: 9f08ea848117 ("netfilter: nf_tables: keep chain counters away from hot path")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 96903c72ebb45..b4d38656d98fa 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -2101,9 +2101,9 @@ static int nf_tables_addchain(struct nft_ctx *ctx, u8 family, u8 genmask,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
const struct nlattr * const *nla = ctx->nla;
+ struct nft_stats __percpu *stats = NULL;
struct nft_table *table = ctx->table;
struct nft_base_chain *basechain;
- struct nft_stats __percpu *stats;
struct net *net = ctx->net;
char name[NFT_NAME_MAXLEN];
struct nft_trans *trans;
@@ -2140,7 +2140,6 @@ static int nf_tables_addchain(struct nft_ctx *ctx, u8 family, u8 genmask,
return PTR_ERR(stats);
}
rcu_assign_pointer(basechain->stats, stats);
- static_branch_inc(&nft_counters_enabled);
}
err = nft_basechain_init(basechain, family, &hook, flags);
@@ -2223,6 +2222,9 @@ static int nf_tables_addchain(struct nft_ctx *ctx, u8 family, u8 genmask,
goto err_unregister_hook;
}
+ if (stats)
+ static_branch_inc(&nft_counters_enabled);
+
table->use++;
return 0;
