This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_tables: can't schedule in nft_chain_validate to the 6.4-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-can-t-schedule-in-nft_chain_vali.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1c96f1664cded724709812e0e8e690891772de93 Author: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 18 01:30:33 2023 +0200 netfilter: nf_tables: can't schedule in nft_chain_validate [ Upstream commit 314c82841602a111c04a7210c21dc77e0d560242 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 51909bcc181fa..f3a4aa9054876 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -3684,8 +3684,6 @@ int nft_chain_validate(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_chain *chain) if (err < 0) return err; } - - cond_resched(); } return 0; @@ -3709,6 +3707,8 @@ 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;