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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:35:40 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hawk@...u.dk
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: fix reentrancy

Le mercredi 16 mars 2011 à 13:16 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:00:05 +0100
> 
> > We currently use a percpu spinlock to 'protect' rule bytes/packets
> > counters, after various attempts to use RCU instead.
> > 
> > Lately we added a seqlock so that get_counters() can run without
> > blocking BH or 'writers'. But we really use the seqcount in it.
> > 
> > Spinlock itself is only locked by the current cpu, so we can remove it
> > completely.
> > 
> > This cleanups api, using correct 'writer' vs 'reader' semantic.
> > 
> > At replace time, the get_counters() call makes sure all cpus are done
> > using the old table.
> > 
> > We could probably avoid blocking BH (we currently block them in xmit
> > path), but thats a different topic ;)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> 
> FWIW, I think this is a great idea.

I knew you would be interested :)

While looking at it (and trying to only require preemption disabled
instead of BH disabled), I believe stackptr management is not safe.

I suggest following patch to make sure we restore *stackptr to origptr
before enabling BH (or preemption later)

Thanks

[PATCH] netfilter: xtables: fix reentrancy

commit f3c5c1bfd4308 (make ip_tables reentrant) introduced a race in
handling the stackptr restore, at the end of ipt_do_table()

We should do it before the call to xt_info_rdunlock_bh(), or we allow
cpu preemption and another cpu overwrites stackptr of original one.

A second fix is to change the underflow test to check the origptr value
instead of 0 to detect underflow, or else we allow a jump from different
hooks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c  |    4 ++--
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index b09ed0d..ffcea0d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ ipt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 					verdict = (unsigned)(-v) - 1;
 					break;
 				}
-				if (*stackptr == 0) {
+				if (*stackptr <= origptr) {
 					e = get_entry(table_base,
 					    private->underflow[hook]);
 					pr_debug("Underflow (this is normal) "
@@ -427,10 +427,10 @@ ipt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			/* Verdict */
 			break;
 	} while (!acpar.hotdrop);
-	xt_info_rdunlock_bh();
 	pr_debug("Exiting %s; resetting sp from %u to %u\n",
 		 __func__, *stackptr, origptr);
 	*stackptr = origptr;
+	xt_info_rdunlock_bh();
 #ifdef DEBUG_ALLOW_ALL
 	return NF_ACCEPT;
 #else
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index c9598a9..0b2af9b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ ip6t_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 					verdict = (unsigned)(-v) - 1;
 					break;
 				}
-				if (*stackptr == 0)
+				if (*stackptr <= origptr)
 					e = get_entry(table_base,
 					    private->underflow[hook]);
 				else
@@ -441,8 +441,8 @@ ip6t_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			break;
 	} while (!acpar.hotdrop);
 
-	xt_info_rdunlock_bh();
 	*stackptr = origptr;
+	xt_info_rdunlock_bh();
 
 #ifdef DEBUG_ALLOW_ALL
 	return NF_ACCEPT;


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