The old code would indefinitely block other users of nf_log_mutex if
a userspace access in proc_dostring() blocked e.g. due to a userfaultfd
region. Fix it by moving proc_dostring() out of the locked region.
This is a followup to commit
266d07cb1c9a ("netfilter: nf_log: fix
sleeping function called from invalid context"), which changed this code
from using rcu_read_lock() to taking nf_log_mutex.
Fixes:
266d07cb1c9a ("netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function calle[...]")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
rcu_assign_pointer(net->nf.nf_loggers[tindex], logger);
mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
} else {
rcu_assign_pointer(net->nf.nf_loggers[tindex], logger);
mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
} else {
+ struct ctl_table tmp = *table;
+
+ tmp.data = buf;
mutex_lock(&nf_log_mutex);
logger = nft_log_dereference(net->nf.nf_loggers[tindex]);
if (!logger)
mutex_lock(&nf_log_mutex);
logger = nft_log_dereference(net->nf.nf_loggers[tindex]);
if (!logger)
+ strlcpy(buf, "NONE", sizeof(buf));
- table->data = logger->name;
- r = proc_dostring(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ strlcpy(buf, logger->name, sizeof(buf));
mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
+ r = proc_dostring(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);