[PATCH review for 4.4 37/47] netfilter: invoke synchronize_rcu after set the _hook_ to NULL

From: Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 01:00:29 EST


From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 3b7dabf029478bb80507a6c4500ca94132a2bc0b ]

Otherwise, another CPU may access the invalid pointer. For example:
CPU0 CPU1
- rcu_read_lock();
- pfunc = _hook_;
_hook_ = NULL; -
mod unload -
- pfunc(); // invalid, panic
- rcu_read_unlock();

So we must call synchronize_rcu() to wait the rcu reader to finish.

Also note, in nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini, synchronize_rcu() will be invoked
by later nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, but I'm inclined to add a
explicit synchronize_rcu after set the nf_nat_snmp_hook to NULL. Depend
on such obscure assumptions is not a good idea.

Last, in nfnetlink_cttimeout, we use kfree_rcu to free the time object,
so in cttimeout_exit, invoking rcu_barrier() is not necessary at all,
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c | 1 +
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c | 2 ++
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 1 +
net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c | 2 ++
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c
index ddb894ac1458..2689c9c4f1a0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c
@@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ static int __init nf_nat_snmp_basic_init(void)
static void __exit nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini(void)
{
RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_nat_snmp_hook, NULL);
+ synchronize_rcu();
nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(&snmp_trap_helper);
}

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c
index 4e78c57b818f..f3b92ce463b0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_unregister_notifier(struct net *net,
BUG_ON(notify != new);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->ct.nf_conntrack_event_cb, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&nf_ct_ecache_mutex);
+ /* synchronize_rcu() is called from ctnetlink_exit. */
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_unregister_notifier);

@@ -236,6 +237,7 @@ void nf_ct_expect_unregister_notifier(struct net *net,
BUG_ON(notify != new);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->ct.nf_expect_event_cb, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&nf_ct_ecache_mutex);
+ /* synchronize_rcu() is called from ctnetlink_exit. */
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_expect_unregister_notifier);

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index e565b2becb14..660939df7c94 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -3415,6 +3415,7 @@ static void __exit ctnetlink_exit(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK_GLUE_CT
RCU_INIT_POINTER(nfnl_ct_hook, NULL);
#endif
+ synchronize_rcu();
}

module_init(ctnetlink_init);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
index 06a9f45771ab..44516c90118a 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
@@ -892,6 +892,8 @@ static void __exit nf_nat_cleanup(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_nat_decode_session_hook, NULL);
#endif
+ synchronize_rcu();
+
for (i = 0; i < NFPROTO_NUMPROTO; i++)
kfree(nf_nat_l4protos[i]);
synchronize_net();
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c
index c7a2d0e1c462..ed9153bd7e73 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c
@@ -611,8 +611,8 @@ static void __exit cttimeout_exit(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMEOUT
RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_timeout_find_get_hook, NULL);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_ct_timeout_put_hook, NULL);
+ synchronize_rcu();
#endif /* CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_TIMEOUT */
- rcu_barrier();
}

module_init(cttimeout_init);
--
2.11.0