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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, fasnacht@protonmail.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf,v2] netfilter: nf_tables: disable bh to update per-cpu rnd_state
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 19:51:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoUyFuQVQjiAV0/U@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220518164621.GH4316@breakpoint.cc>

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 06:46:21PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > bh might occur while updating per-cpu rnd_state from user context,
> > ie. local_out path.
> > 
> > [233241.951068] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: nginx/2725
> > [233241.951220] caller is nft_ng_random_eval+0x24/0x54 [nft_numgen]
> > [233241.951225] CPU: 2 PID: 2725 Comm: nginx Tainted: G           OE 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1  Debian 5.16.12-1~bpo11+1
> > [233241.951227] Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-5039MC-H8TRF/X11SCD-F, BIOS 1.7 11/23/2021
> > [233241.951228] Call Trace:
> > [233241.951231]  <TASK>
> > [233241.951233]  dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x5e
> > [233241.951236]  check_preemption_disabled+0xde/0xe0
> > [233241.951239]  nft_ng_random_eval+0x24/0x54 [nft_numgen]
> > 
> > Fixes: 6b2faee0ca91 ("netfilter: nft_meta: place prandom handling in a helper")
> > Fixes: 978d8f9055c3 ("netfilter: nft_numgen: add map lookups for numgen random operations")
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> > ---
> > v2: disable/enable bh
> >     @Florian: your rand meta support is missing {disable,enable}_local_bh()
> 
> I wonder if its better to just switch to get_random_u32() instead of prandom.

Feel free to pick if you would like to send a v3.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-18 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-18 16:00 [PATCH nf,v2] netfilter: nf_tables: disable bh to update per-cpu rnd_state Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-05-18 16:46 ` Florian Westphal
2022-05-18 17:51   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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