From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cc8e58f8325cdf14b9516b61c384cdfd02a4f408 ] The following deadlock scenario is triggered by syzbot: Thread A: Thread B: tcf_idr_check_alloc() ... populate_metalist() rtnl_unlock() rtnl_lock() ... request_module() tcf_idr_check_alloc() rtnl_lock() At this point, thread A is waiting for thread B to release RTNL lock, while thread B is waiting for thread A to commit the IDR change with tcf_idr_insert() later. Break this deadlock situation by preloading ife modules earlier, before tcf_idr_check_alloc(), this is fine because we only need to load modules we need potentially. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+80e32b5d1f9923f8ace6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 0190c1d452a9 ("net: sched: atomically check-allocate action") Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/act_ife.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/net/sched/act_ife.c +++ b/net/sched/act_ife.c @@ -436,6 +436,25 @@ static void tcf_ife_cleanup(struct tc_ac kfree_rcu(p, rcu); } +static int load_metalist(struct nlattr **tb, bool rtnl_held) +{ + int i; + + for (i = 1; i < max_metacnt; i++) { + if (tb[i]) { + void *val = nla_data(tb[i]); + int len = nla_len(tb[i]); + int rc; + + rc = load_metaops_and_vet(i, val, len, rtnl_held); + if (rc != 0) + return rc; + } + } + + return 0; +} + static int populate_metalist(struct tcf_ife_info *ife, struct nlattr **tb, bool exists, bool rtnl_held) { @@ -449,10 +468,6 @@ static int populate_metalist(struct tcf_ val = nla_data(tb[i]); len = nla_len(tb[i]); - rc = load_metaops_and_vet(i, val, len, rtnl_held); - if (rc != 0) - return rc; - rc = add_metainfo(ife, i, val, len, exists); if (rc) return rc; @@ -509,6 +524,21 @@ static int tcf_ife_init(struct net *net, if (!p) return -ENOMEM; + if (tb[TCA_IFE_METALST]) { + err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb2, IFE_META_MAX, + tb[TCA_IFE_METALST], NULL, + NULL); + if (err) { + kfree(p); + return err; + } + err = load_metalist(tb2, rtnl_held); + if (err) { + kfree(p); + return err; + } + } + index = parm->index; err = tcf_idr_check_alloc(tn, &index, a, bind); if (err < 0) { @@ -570,15 +600,9 @@ static int tcf_ife_init(struct net *net, } if (tb[TCA_IFE_METALST]) { - err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb2, IFE_META_MAX, - tb[TCA_IFE_METALST], NULL, - NULL); - if (err) - goto metadata_parse_err; err = populate_metalist(ife, tb2, exists, rtnl_held); if (err) goto metadata_parse_err; - } else { /* if no passed metadata allow list or passed allow-all * then here we process by adding as many supported metadatum