This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: invoke synchronize_rcu after set the _hook_ to NULL to the 4.4-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-invoke-synchronize_rcu-after-set-the-_hook_-to-null.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:49:14 CEST 2017 From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:53:12 +0800 Subject: netfilter: invoke synchronize_rcu after set the _hook_ to NULL From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3b7dabf029478bb80507a6c4500ca94132a2bc0b ] Otherwise, another CPU may access the invalid pointer. For example: CPU0 CPU1 - rcu_read_lock(); - pfunc = _hook_; _hook_ = NULL; - mod unload - - pfunc(); // invalid, panic - rcu_read_unlock(); So we must call synchronize_rcu() to wait the rcu reader to finish. Also note, in nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini, synchronize_rcu() will be invoked by later nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, but I'm inclined to add a explicit synchronize_rcu after set the nf_nat_snmp_hook to NULL. Depend on such obscure assumptions is not a good idea. Last, in nfnetlink_cttimeout, we use kfree_rcu to free the time object, so in cttimeout_exit, invoking rcu_barrier() is not necessary at all, remove it too. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c | 2 ++ net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c | 2 ++ net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c @@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ static int __init nf_nat_snmp_basic_init static void __exit nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini(void) { RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_nat_snmp_hook, NULL); + synchronize_rcu(); nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(&snmp_trap_helper); } --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_unregister_notifier(st BUG_ON(notify != new); RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->ct.nf_conntrack_event_cb, NULL); mutex_unlock(&nf_ct_ecache_mutex); + /* synchronize_rcu() is called from ctnetlink_exit. */ } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_unregister_notifier); @@ -236,6 +237,7 @@ void nf_ct_expect_unregister_notifier(st BUG_ON(notify != new); RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->ct.nf_expect_event_cb, NULL); mutex_unlock(&nf_ct_ecache_mutex); + /* synchronize_rcu() is called from ctnetlink_exit. */ } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_expect_unregister_notifier); --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -3415,6 +3415,7 @@ static void __exit ctnetlink_exit(void) #ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_GLUE_CT RCU_INIT_POINTER(nfnl_ct_hook, NULL); #endif + synchronize_rcu(); } module_init(ctnetlink_init); --- a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c @@ -892,6 +892,8 @@ static void __exit nf_nat_cleanup(void) #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_nat_decode_session_hook, NULL); #endif + synchronize_rcu(); + for (i = 0; i < NFPROTO_NUMPROTO; i++) kfree(nf_nat_l4protos[i]); synchronize_net(); --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c @@ -611,8 +611,8 @@ static void __exit cttimeout_exit(void) #ifdef CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMEOUT RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_timeout_find_get_hook, NULL); RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_timeout_put_hook, NULL); + synchronize_rcu(); #endif /* CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMEOUT */ - rcu_barrier(); } module_init(cttimeout_init); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/netfilter-invoke-synchronize_rcu-after-set-the-_hook_-to-null.patch queue-4.4/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-incorrect-helper-expect_class_max.patch