netdev - Re: data-race in nf_tables_newtable / nf_tables

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:51:55 -0400
From:   Gabriel Ryan <gabe@...columbia.edu>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     Abhishek Shah <abhishek.shah@...umbia.edu>, coreteam@...filter.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kadlec@...filter.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        pablo@...filter.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: data-race in nf_tables_newtable / nf_tables_newtable

Ok, glad everything worked out then, thanks for sharing!

Best,

Gabe

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 4:42 PM Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
>
> Gabriel Ryan <gabe@...columbia.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > I just looked at the lock event trace from our report and it looks
> > like two distinct commit mutexes were held when the race was
> > triggered. I think the race is probably on the table_handle variable
> > on net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1221, and not the table->handle field
> > being written to.
>
> See
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__patchwork.ozlabs.org_project_netfilter-2Ddevel_patch_20220821085939.571378-2D1-2Dpablo-40netfilter.org_&d=DwIFAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=EyAJYRJu01oaAhhVVY3o8zKgZvacDAXd_PNRtaqACCo&m=tKybb4B0md9Rrb5d9AH-UN2fjr4L8y6LtRxywepWhKsWCyN0OWaRwAtDbGt10WQD&s=uJ4BtOvCcZOe6F17rDKQipDF0McLeOwaUL9jO3BgTCU&e=
>
> which makes table_handle per netns.