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Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 43f05b3acd60..168765d1d1c2 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -564,23 +564,21 @@ __nf_tables_chain_type_lookup(const struct nlattr *nla, u8 family) } /* - * Loading a module requires dropping mutex that guards the - * transaction. - * We first need to abort any pending transactions as once - * mutex is unlocked a different client could start a new - * transaction. It must not see any 'future generation' - * changes * as these changes will never happen. + * Loading a module requires dropping mutex that guards the transaction. + * A different client might race to start a new transaction meanwhile. Zap the + * list of pending transaction and then restore it once the mutex is grabbed + * again. Users of this function return EAGAIN which implicitly triggers the + * transaction abort path to clean up the list of pending transactions. */ #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES -static int __nf_tables_abort(struct net *net); - static void nft_request_module(struct net *net, const char *fmt, ...) { char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN]; + LIST_HEAD(commit_list); va_list args; int ret; - __nf_tables_abort(net); + list_splice_init(&net->nft.commit_list, &commit_list); va_start(args, fmt); ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args); @@ -591,6 +589,9 @@ static void nft_request_module(struct net *net, const char *fmt, ...) mutex_unlock(&net->nft.commit_mutex); request_module("%s", module_name); mutex_lock(&net->nft.commit_mutex); + + WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&net->nft.commit_list)); + list_splice(&commit_list, &net->nft.commit_list); } #endif |