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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2022-02-28 04:18:05 +0100
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2022-02-28 22:34:04 +0100
commit17a8f31bba7bac8cce4bd12bab50697da96e7710 (patch)
tree0f4827fd50e30d1a2b296ff0a7b9a024843a2b31 /include
parent56763f12b0f02706576a088e85ef856deacc98a0 (diff)
netfilter: egress: silence egress hook lockdep splats
Netfilter assumes its called with rcu_read_lock held, but in egress hook case it may be called with BH readlock. This triggers lockdep splat. In order to avoid to change all rcu_dereference() to rcu_dereference_check(..., rcu_read_lock_bh_held()), wrap nf_hook_slow with read lock/unlock pair. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h b/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h
index b4dd96e4dc8d..e6487a691136 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h
@@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *nf_hook_egress(struct sk_buff *skb, int *rc,
nf_hook_state_init(&state, NF_NETDEV_EGRESS,
NFPROTO_NETDEV, dev, NULL, NULL,
dev_net(dev), NULL);
+
+ /* nf assumes rcu_read_lock, not just read_lock_bh */
+ rcu_read_lock();
ret = nf_hook_slow(skb, &state, e, 0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (ret == 1) {
return skb;