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author | Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> | 2023-03-03 10:58:56 +0100 |
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committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2023-03-06 12:09:48 +0100 |
commit | 4a02426787bf024dafdb79b362285ee325de3f5e (patch) | |
tree | 88f0905ed0e7028251bdbda88b015e84d1b46ed6 /MAINTAINERS | |
parent | 9f7dd42f0db1dc6915a52d4a8a96ca18dd8cc34e (diff) |
netfilter: tproxy: fix deadlock due to missing BH disable
The xtables packet traverser performs an unconditional local_bh_disable(),
but the nf_tables evaluation loop does not.
Functions that are called from either xtables or nftables must assume
that they can be called in process context.
inet_twsk_deschedule_put() assumes that no softirq interrupt can occur.
If tproxy is used from nf_tables its possible that we'll deadlock
trying to aquire a lock already held in process context.
Add a small helper that takes care of this and use it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/401bd6ed-314a-a196-1cdc-e13c720cc8f2@balasys.hu/
Fixes: 4ed8eb6570a4 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Add native tproxy support")
Reported-and-tested-by: Major Dávid <major.david@balasys.hu>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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