Liping Zhang 88be4c09d9 netfilter: ctnetlink: fix deadlock due to acquire _expect_lock twice
Currently, ctnetlink_change_conntrack is always protected by _expect_lock,
but this will cause a deadlock when deleting the helper from a conntrack,
as the _expect_lock will be acquired again by nf_ct_remove_expectations:

         CPU0
        ----
  lock(nf_conntrack_expect_lock);
  lock(nf_conntrack_expect_lock);

  *** DEADLOCK ***
  May be due to missing lock nesting notation

  2 locks held by lt-conntrack_gr/12853:
  #0:  (&table[i].mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa05e2009>]
       nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x399/0x6a9 [nfnetlink]
  #1:  (nf_conntrack_expect_lock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffffa05f2c1f>]
       ctnetlink_new_conntrack+0x17f/0x408 [nf_conntrack_netlink]

  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x85/0xc2
   __lock_acquire+0x1608/0x1680
   ? ctnetlink_parse_tuple_proto+0x10f/0x1c0 [nf_conntrack_netlink]
   lock_acquire+0x100/0x1f0
   ? nf_ct_remove_expectations+0x32/0x90 [nf_conntrack]
   _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x3f/0x50
   ? nf_ct_remove_expectations+0x32/0x90 [nf_conntrack]
   nf_ct_remove_expectations+0x32/0x90 [nf_conntrack]
   ctnetlink_change_helper+0xc6/0x190 [nf_conntrack_netlink]
   ctnetlink_new_conntrack+0x1b2/0x408 [nf_conntrack_netlink]
   nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x60a/0x6a9 [nfnetlink]
   ? nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1b9/0x6a9 [nfnetlink]
   ? nfnetlink_bind+0x1a0/0x1a0 [nfnetlink]
   netlink_rcv_skb+0xa4/0xc0
   nfnetlink_rcv+0x87/0x770 [nfnetlink]

Since the operations are unrelated to nf_ct_expect, so we can drop the
_expect_lock. Also note, after removing the _expect_lock protection,
another CPU may invoke nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, so we should
use rcu_read_lock to protect __nf_conntrack_helper_find invoked by
ctnetlink_change_helper.

Fixes: ca7433df3a ("netfilter: conntrack: seperate expect locking from nf_conntrack_lock")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2017-04-24 20:06:28 +02:00
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