From: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dddeb30bfc43926620f954266fd12c65a7206f07 ] There is a place, inet_dump_fib() fib_table_dump fn_trie_dump_leaf() hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() without rcu_read_lock() will trigger a warning, WARNING: suspicious RCU usage ----------------------------- net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:2216 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by ip/1923: #0: ffffffff8ce76e40 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: netlink_dump+0xd6/0x840 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xa1/0xea lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x103/0x10d fn_trie_dump_leaf+0x581/0x590 fib_table_dump+0x15f/0x220 inet_dump_fib+0x4ad/0x5d0 netlink_dump+0x350/0x840 __netlink_dump_start+0x315/0x3e0 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4d1/0x720 netlink_rcv_skb+0xf0/0x220 rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x20 netlink_unicast+0x306/0x460 netlink_sendmsg+0x44b/0x770 __sys_sendto+0x259/0x270 __x64_sys_sendto+0x80/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x69/0xf4 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3 Fixes: 18a8021a7be3 ("net/ipv4: Plumb support for filtering route dumps") Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c @@ -1007,7 +1007,9 @@ static int inet_dump_fib(struct sk_buff return -ENOENT; } + rcu_read_lock(); err = fib_table_dump(tb, skb, cb, &filter); + rcu_read_unlock(); return skb->len ? : err; }