netfilter: nft_hash: no need for rcu in the hash set destroy path
authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:09:35 +0000 (11:09 +0200)
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Wed, 3 Sep 2014 08:57:06 +0000 (10:57 +0200)
commit39f390167e9ca73c009d3c8e2d6c3b4286b02ab6
tree143bf3f5a0819a84f9594fbd5aceb0dc60510ca9
parentbec6bfb2437f4676dbaaacba6019e9dafef18962
netfilter: nft_hash: no need for rcu in the hash set destroy path

The sets are released from the rcu callback, after the rule is removed
from the chain list, which implies that nfnetlink cannot update the
hashes (thus, no resizing may occur) and no packets are walking on the
set anymore.

This resolves a lockdep splat in the nft_hash_destroy() path since the
nfnl mutex is not held there.

===============================
[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
3.16.0-rc2+ #168 Not tainted
-------------------------------
net/netfilter/nft_hash.c:362 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by ksoftirqd/0/3:
 #0:  (rcu_callback){......}, at: [<ffffffff81096393>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x27e/0x4c7

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 3 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2+ #168
Hardware name: LENOVO 23259H1/23259H1, BIOS G2ET32WW (1.12 ) 05/30/2012
 0000000000000001 ffff88011769bb98 ffffffff8142c922 0000000000000006
 ffff880117694090 ffff88011769bbc8 ffffffff8107c3ff ffff8800cba52400
 ffff8800c476bea8 ffff8800c476bea8 ffff8800cba52400 ffff88011769bc08
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8142c922>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x68
 [<ffffffff8107c3ff>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfa/0x103
 [<ffffffffa079931e>] nft_hash_destroy+0x50/0x137 [nft_hash]
 [<ffffffffa078cd57>] nft_set_destroy+0x11/0x2a [nf_tables]

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
net/netfilter/nft_hash.c