[PATCH 4.20 004/171] netfilter: nft_compat: use refcnt_t type for nft_xt reference count

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 12 2019 - 13:11:58 EST


4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 12c44aba6618b7f6c437076e5722237190f6cd5f ]

Using standard integer type was fine while all operations on it were
guarded by the nftnl subsys mutex.

This isn't true anymore:
1. transactions are guarded only by a pernet mutex, so concurrent
rule manipulation in different netns is racy
2. the ->destroy hook runs from a work queue after the transaction
mutex has been released already.

cpu0 cpu1 (net 1) cpu2 (net 2)
kworker
nft_compat->destroy nft_compat->init nft_compat->init
if (--nft_xt->ref == 0) nft_xt->ref++ nft_xt->ref++

Switch to refcount_t. Doing this however only fixes a minor aspect,
nft_compat also performs linked-list operations in an unsafe way.

This is addressed in the next two patches.

Fixes: f102d66b335a ("netfilter: nf_tables: use dedicated mutex to guard transactions")
Fixes: 0935d5588400 ("netfilter: nf_tables: asynchronous release")
Reported-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nft_compat.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c b/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
index c90a4640723f..791f3e693e3d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
struct nft_xt {
struct list_head head;
struct nft_expr_ops ops;
- unsigned int refcnt;
+ refcount_t refcnt;

/* Unlike other expressions, ops doesn't have static storage duration.
* nft core assumes they do. We use kfree_rcu so that nft core can
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct nft_xt_match_priv {

static bool nft_xt_put(struct nft_xt *xt)
{
- if (--xt->refcnt == 0) {
+ if (refcount_dec_and_test(&xt->refcnt)) {
list_del(&xt->head);
kfree_rcu(xt, rcu_head);
return true;
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ nft_target_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_expr *expr,
return -EINVAL;

nft_xt = container_of(expr->ops, struct nft_xt, ops);
- nft_xt->refcnt++;
+ refcount_inc(&nft_xt->refcnt);
return 0;
}

@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ __nft_match_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nft_expr *expr,
return ret;

nft_xt = container_of(expr->ops, struct nft_xt, ops);
- nft_xt->refcnt++;
+ refcount_inc(&nft_xt->refcnt);
return 0;
}

@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ nft_match_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
goto err;
}

- nft_match->refcnt = 0;
+ refcount_set(&nft_match->refcnt, 0);
nft_match->ops.type = &nft_match_type;
nft_match->ops.eval = nft_match_eval;
nft_match->ops.init = nft_match_init;
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ nft_target_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
goto err;
}

- nft_target->refcnt = 0;
+ refcount_set(&nft_target->refcnt, 0);
nft_target->ops.type = &nft_target_type;
nft_target->ops.size = NFT_EXPR_SIZE(XT_ALIGN(target->targetsize));
nft_target->ops.init = nft_target_init;
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static void __exit nft_compat_module_exit(void)
list_for_each_entry_safe(xt, next, &nft_target_list, head) {
struct xt_target *target = xt->ops.data;

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(xt->refcnt))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_read(&xt->refcnt)))
continue;
module_put(target->me);
kfree(xt);
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ static void __exit nft_compat_module_exit(void)
list_for_each_entry_safe(xt, next, &nft_match_list, head) {
struct xt_match *match = xt->ops.data;

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(xt->refcnt))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_read(&xt->refcnt)))
continue;
module_put(match->me);
kfree(xt);
--
2.19.1