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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Netfilter: suspicious RCU usage in __nft_rule_lookup
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:22:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241024232230.GA23717@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZxqQAIlQx8C1E6FK@calendula>

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> 
> this comment below is also not valid anymore:
> 
> /* called with rcu_read_lock held */
> static struct sk_buff *
> nf_tables_getrule_single(u32 portid, const struct nfnl_info *info,
>                          const struct nlattr * const nla[], bool reset)

Yes, either called with rcu read lock or commit mutex held.

> This is not the only spot that can trigger rcu splats.

Agree.  Will you make a patch or should I take a look?
I'm leaning towards a common helper that can pass the
right lockdep annotation, i.e. pass nft_net as arg to
document when RCU or transaction semantics apply.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-24 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-24 16:56 Netfilter: suspicious RCU usage in __nft_rule_lookup Matthieu Baerts
2024-10-24 17:35 ` Florian Westphal
2024-10-24 18:00   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-24 17:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-24 18:20   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-24 23:22     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2024-10-25  8:14       ` Matthieu Baerts
2024-10-25  9:23         ` Florian Westphal
2024-10-25  9:42           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-25  9:46           ` Phil Sutter
2024-10-25 10:26             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-25 10:56               ` Phil Sutter
2024-10-25 11:43                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-25 13:16                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-10-25 10:35       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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