This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
to the 4.15-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:
net_sched-gen_estimator-fix-lockdep-splat.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 40ca54e3a686f13117f3de0c443f8026dadf7c44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:58:43 -0800
Subject: net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 40ca54e3a686f13117f3de0c443f8026dadf7c44 upstream.
syzbot reported a lockdep splat in gen_new_estimator() /
est_fetch_counters() when attempting to lock est->stats_lock.
Since est_fetch_counters() is called from BH context from timer
interrupt, we need to block BH as well when calling it from process
context.
Most qdiscs use per cpu counters and are immune to the problem,
but net/sched/act_api.c and net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c are using
a spinlock to protect their data. They both call gen_new_estimator()
while object is created and not yet alive, so this bug could
not trigger a deadlock, only a lockdep splat.
Fixes: 1c0d32fde5bd ("net_sched: gen_estimator: complete rewrite of rate estimators")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/gen_estimator.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/net/core/gen_estimator.c
+++ b/net/core/gen_estimator.c
@@ -159,7 +159,11 @@ int gen_new_estimator(struct gnet_stats_
est->intvl_log = intvl_log;
est->cpu_bstats = cpu_bstats;
+ if (stats_lock)
+ local_bh_disable();
est_fetch_counters(est, &b);
+ if (stats_lock)
+ local_bh_enable();
est->last_bytes = b.bytes;
est->last_packets = b.packets;
old = rcu_dereference_protected(*rate_est, 1);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/net_sched-gen_estimator-fix-lockdep-splat.patch
queue-4.15/tun-fix-tun_napi_alloc_frags-frag-allocator.patch
queue-4.15/netfilter-x_tables-avoid-out-of-bounds-reads-in-xt_request_find_-match-target.patch
queue-4.15/netfilter-xt_rateest-acquire-xt_rateest_mutex-for-hash-insert.patch