From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 02/10] netfilter: nft_counter: serialize reset with spinlock
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:32:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260217163233.31455-3-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260217163233.31455-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Brian Witte <brianwitte@mailfence.com>
Add a global static spinlock to serialize counter fetch+reset
operations, preventing concurrent dump-and-reset from underrunning
values.
The lock is taken before fetching the total so that two parallel
resets cannot both read the same counter values and then both
subtract them.
A global lock is used for simplicity since resets are infrequent.
If this becomes a bottleneck, it can be replaced with a per-net
lock later.
Fixes: bd662c4218f9 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETOBJ_RESET requests")
Fixes: 3d483faa6663 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETSETELEM_RESET requests")
Fixes: 3cb03edb4de3 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETRULE_RESET requests")
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Witte <brianwitte@mailfence.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/netfilter/nft_counter.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c b/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
index 0d70325280cc..169ae93688bc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ struct nft_counter_percpu_priv {
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct u64_stats_sync, nft_counter_sync);
+/* control plane only: sync fetch+reset */
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nft_counter_lock);
+
static inline void nft_counter_do_eval(struct nft_counter_percpu_priv *priv,
struct nft_regs *regs,
const struct nft_pktinfo *pkt)
@@ -148,13 +151,25 @@ static void nft_counter_fetch(struct nft_counter_percpu_priv *priv,
}
}
+static void nft_counter_fetch_and_reset(struct nft_counter_percpu_priv *priv,
+ struct nft_counter_tot *total)
+{
+ spin_lock(&nft_counter_lock);
+ nft_counter_fetch(priv, total);
+ nft_counter_reset(priv, total);
+ spin_unlock(&nft_counter_lock);
+}
+
static int nft_counter_do_dump(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct nft_counter_percpu_priv *priv,
bool reset)
{
struct nft_counter_tot total;
- nft_counter_fetch(priv, &total);
+ if (unlikely(reset))
+ nft_counter_fetch_and_reset(priv, &total);
+ else
+ nft_counter_fetch(priv, &total);
if (nla_put_be64(skb, NFTA_COUNTER_BYTES, cpu_to_be64(total.bytes),
NFTA_COUNTER_PAD) ||
@@ -162,9 +177,6 @@ static int nft_counter_do_dump(struct sk_buff *skb,
NFTA_COUNTER_PAD))
goto nla_put_failure;
- if (reset)
- nft_counter_reset(priv, &total);
-
return 0;
nla_put_failure:
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-17 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-17 16:32 [PATCH net 00/10] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 01/10] netfilter: annotate NAT helper hook pointers with __rcu Florian Westphal
2026-02-19 1:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-02-17 16:32 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 03/10] netfilter: nft_quota: use atomic64_xchg for reset Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 04/10] netfilter: nf_tables: revert commit_mutex usage in reset path Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 05/10] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: don't pass uninitialised l3num value Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 06/10] include: uapi: netfilter_bridge.h: Cover for musl libc Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 07/10] ipvs: skip ipv6 extension headers for csum checks Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 08/10] ipvs: do not keep dest_dst if dev is going down Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 09/10] net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE when accessing forward path array Florian Westphal
2026-02-17 16:32 ` [PATCH net 10/10] netfilter: nf_tables: fix use-after-free in nf_tables_addchain() Florian Westphal
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