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authorNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>2015-10-16 09:40:28 +0300
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2015-10-17 13:01:24 +0200
commit00db674bedd68ff8b5afae9030ff5e04d45d1b4a (patch)
treec012653980bb096c790f7cd090ce5d14c60cb01d /net/netfilter
parentnetfilter: sync with packet rx also after removing queue entries (diff)
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netfilter: ipset: Fix sleeping memory allocation in atomic context
Commit 00590fdd5be0 introduced RCU locking in list type and in doing so introduced a memory allocation in list_set_add, which is done in an atomic context, due to the fact that ipset rcu list modifications are serialised with a spin lock. The reason why we can't use a mutex is that in addition to modifying the list with ipset commands, it's also being modified when a particular ipset rule timeout expires aka garbage collection. This gc is triggered from set_cleanup_entries, which in turn is invoked from a timer thus requiring the lock to be bh-safe. Concretely the following call chain can lead to "sleeping function called in atomic context" splat: call_ad -> list_set_uadt -> list_set_uadd -> kzalloc(, GFP_KERNEL). And since GFP_KERNEL allows initiating direct reclaim thus potentially sleeping in the allocation path. To fix the issue change the allocation type to GFP_ATOMIC, to correctly reflect that it is occuring in an atomic context. Fixes: 00590fdd5be0 ("netfilter: ipset: Introduce RCU locking in list type") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c
index a1fe5377a2b3..5a30ce6e8c90 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_list_set.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ list_set_uadd(struct ip_set *set, void *value, const struct ip_set_ext *ext,
ip_set_timeout_expired(ext_timeout(n, set))))
n = NULL;
- e = kzalloc(set->dsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ e = kzalloc(set->dsize, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!e)
return -ENOMEM;
e->id = d->id;