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[NETFILTER]: recent match: fix "sleeping function called from invalid…
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create_proc_entry must not be called with locks held. Use a mutex
instead to protect data only changed in user context.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored and David S. Miller committed Jun 18, 2006
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15 changes: 10 additions & 5 deletions net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c
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Expand Up @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ struct recent_table {

static LIST_HEAD(tables);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(recent_lock);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(recent_mutex);

#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_dir;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -249,7 +250,7 @@ ipt_recent_checkentry(const char *tablename, const void *ip,
strnlen(info->name, IPT_RECENT_NAME_LEN) == IPT_RECENT_NAME_LEN)
return 0;

spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
mutex_lock(&recent_mutex);
t = recent_table_lookup(info->name);
if (t != NULL) {
t->refcnt++;
Expand All @@ -258,7 +259,7 @@ ipt_recent_checkentry(const char *tablename, const void *ip,
}

t = kzalloc(sizeof(*t) + sizeof(t->iphash[0]) * ip_list_hash_size,
GFP_ATOMIC);
GFP_KERNEL);
if (t == NULL)
goto out;
strcpy(t->name, info->name);
Expand All @@ -274,10 +275,12 @@ ipt_recent_checkentry(const char *tablename, const void *ip,
t->proc->proc_fops = &recent_fops;
t->proc->data = t;
#endif
spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
list_add_tail(&t->list, &tables);
spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
ret = 1;
out:
spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
mutex_unlock(&recent_mutex);
return ret;
}

Expand All @@ -288,17 +291,19 @@ ipt_recent_destroy(const struct xt_match *match, void *matchinfo,
const struct ipt_recent_info *info = matchinfo;
struct recent_table *t;

spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
mutex_lock(&recent_mutex);
t = recent_table_lookup(info->name);
if (--t->refcnt == 0) {
spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
list_del(&t->list);
spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
recent_table_flush(t);
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
remove_proc_entry(t->name, proc_dir);
#endif
kfree(t);
}
spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
mutex_unlock(&recent_mutex);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
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