This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nft_rbtree: fix locking
to the 4.0-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-nft_rbtree-fix-locking.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 16c45eda96038aae848b6cfd42e2bf4b5e80f365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:19:14 +0000
Subject: netfilter: nft_rbtree: fix locking
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 16c45eda96038aae848b6cfd42e2bf4b5e80f365 upstream.
Fix a race condition and unnecessary locking:
* the root rb_node must only be accessed under the lock in nft_rbtree_lookup()
* the lock is not needed in lookup functions in netlink context
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nft_rbtree.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_rbtree.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_rbtree.c
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ static bool nft_rbtree_lookup(const stru
{
const struct nft_rbtree *priv = nft_set_priv(set);
const struct nft_rbtree_elem *rbe, *interval = NULL;
- const struct rb_node *parent = priv->root.rb_node;
+ const struct rb_node *parent;
int d;
spin_lock_bh(&nft_rbtree_lock);
+ parent = priv->root.rb_node;
while (parent != NULL) {
rbe = rb_entry(parent, struct nft_rbtree_elem, node);
@@ -158,7 +159,6 @@ static int nft_rbtree_get(const struct n
struct nft_rbtree_elem *rbe;
int d;
- spin_lock_bh(&nft_rbtree_lock);
while (parent != NULL) {
rbe = rb_entry(parent, struct nft_rbtree_elem, node);
@@ -173,11 +173,9 @@ static int nft_rbtree_get(const struct n
!(rbe->flags & NFT_SET_ELEM_INTERVAL_END))
nft_data_copy(&elem->data, rbe->data);
elem->flags = rbe->flags;
- spin_unlock_bh(&nft_rbtree_lock);
return 0;
}
}
- spin_unlock_bh(&nft_rbtree_lock);
return -ENOENT;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kaber@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/netfilter-nft_rbtree-fix-locking.patch
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