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netfilter: nf_log: don't hold nf_log_mutex during user access
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commit ce00bf07cc95a57cd20b208e02b3c2604e532ae8 upstream.

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 266d07c ("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: 266d07c ("netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function calle[...]")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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thejh authored and gregkh committed Jul 11, 2018
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9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions net/netfilter/nf_log.c
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Expand Up @@ -444,14 +444,17 @@ static int nf_log_proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
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)
table->data = "NONE";
strlcpy(buf, "NONE", sizeof(buf));
else
table->data = logger->name;
r = proc_dostring(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
strlcpy(buf, logger->name, sizeof(buf));
mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
r = proc_dostring(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
}

return r;
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