netdev - [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: nft_connlimit: disable bh on garbage collection

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Message-Id: <20191002185345.3137-3-pablo@netfilter.org>
Date:   Wed,  2 Oct 2019 20:53:45 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: nft_connlimit: disable bh on garbage collection

BH must be disabled when invoking nf_conncount_gc_list() to perform
garbage collection, otherwise deadlock might happen.

  nf_conncount_add+0x1f/0x50 [nf_conncount]
  nft_connlimit_eval+0x4c/0xe0 [nft_connlimit]
  nft_dynset_eval+0xb5/0x100 [nf_tables]
  nft_do_chain+0xea/0x420 [nf_tables]
  ? sch_direct_xmit+0x111/0x360
  ? noqueue_init+0x10/0x10
  ? __qdisc_run+0x84/0x510
  ? tcp_packet+0x655/0x1610 [nf_conntrack]
  ? ip_finish_output2+0x1a7/0x430
  ? tcp_error+0x130/0x150 [nf_conntrack]
  ? nf_conntrack_in+0x1fc/0x4c0 [nf_conntrack]
  nft_do_chain_ipv4+0x66/0x80 [nf_tables]
  nf_hook_slow+0x44/0xc0
  ip_rcv+0xb5/0xd0
  ? ip_rcv_finish_core.isra.19+0x360/0x360
  __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x52/0x70
  netif_receive_skb_internal+0x34/0xe0
  napi_gro_receive+0xba/0xe0
  e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x1e9/0x420 [e1000e]
  e1000e_poll+0xbe/0x290 [e1000e]
  net_rx_action+0x149/0x3b0
  __do_softirq+0xde/0x2d8
  irq_exit+0xba/0xc0
  do_IRQ+0x85/0xd0
  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
  </IRQ>
  RIP: 0010:nf_conncount_gc_list+0x3b/0x130 [nf_conncount]

Fixes: 2f971a8f4255 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: move all list iterations under spinlock")
Reported-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c b/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
index af1497ab9464..69d6173f91e2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
@@ -218,8 +218,13 @@ static void nft_connlimit_destroy_clone(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 static bool nft_connlimit_gc(struct net *net, const struct nft_expr *expr)
 {
 	struct nft_connlimit *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr);
+	bool ret;
 
-	return nf_conncount_gc_list(net, &priv->list);
+	local_bh_disable();
+	ret = nf_conncount_gc_list(net, &priv->list);
+	local_bh_enable();
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static struct nft_expr_type nft_connlimit_type;
-- 
2.11.0