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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2019-11-15 12:39:23 +0100
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2019-11-29 08:59:34 +0100
commit18a110b022a5c02e7dc9f6109d0bd93e58ac6ebb (patch)
tree24a26d9a056faa856a2f09e65172911364552447 /net/netfilter
parent61183b056b49e2937ff92a1424291ba36a6f6d05 (diff)
netfilter: ctnetlink: netns exit must wait for callbacks
Curtis Taylor and Jon Maxwell reported and debugged a crash on 3.10 based kernel. Crash occurs in ctnetlink_conntrack_events because net->nfnl socket is NULL. The nfnl socket was set to NULL by netns destruction running on another cpu. The exiting network namespace calls the relevant destructors in the following order: 1. ctnetlink_net_exit_batch This nulls out the event callback pointer in struct netns. 2. nfnetlink_net_exit_batch This nulls net->nfnl socket and frees it. 3. nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list This removes all remaining conntrack entries. This is order is correct. The only explanation for the crash so ar is: cpu1: conntrack is dying, eviction occurs: -> nf_ct_delete() -> nf_conntrack_event_report \ -> nf_conntrack_eventmask_report -> notify->fcn() (== ctnetlink_conntrack_events). cpu1: a. fetches rcu protected pointer to obtain ctnetlink event callback. b. gets interrupted. cpu2: runs netns exit handlers: a runs ctnetlink destructor, event cb pointer set to NULL. b runs nfnetlink destructor, nfnl socket is closed and set to NULL. cpu1: c. resumes and trips over NULL net->nfnl. Problem appears to be that ctnetlink_net_exit_batch only prevents future callers of nf_conntrack_eventmask_report() from obtaining the callback. It doesn't wait of other cpus that might have already obtained the callbacks address. I don't see anything in upstream kernels that would prevent similar crash: We need to wait for all cpus to have exited the event callback. Fixes: 9592a5c01e79dbc59eb56fa ("netfilter: ctnetlink: netns support") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index d8d33ef52ce0..6a1c8f1f6171 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -3626,6 +3626,9 @@ static void __net_exit ctnetlink_net_exit_batch(struct list_head *net_exit_list)
list_for_each_entry(net, net_exit_list, exit_list)
ctnetlink_net_exit(net);
+
+ /* wait for other cpus until they are done with ctnl_notifiers */
+ synchronize_rcu();
}
static struct pernet_operations ctnetlink_net_ops = {