netfilter: invoke synchronize_rcu after set the _hook_ to NULL

[ Upstream commit 3b7dabf029478bb80507a6c4500ca94132a2bc0b ]

Otherwise, another CPU may access the invalid pointer. For example:
    CPU0                CPU1
     -              rcu_read_lock();
     -              pfunc = _hook_;
  _hook_ = NULL;          -
  mod unload              -
     -                 pfunc(); // invalid, panic
     -             rcu_read_unlock();

So we must call synchronize_rcu() to wait the rcu reader to finish.

Also note, in nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini, synchronize_rcu() will be invoked
by later nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, but I'm inclined to add a
explicit synchronize_rcu after set the nf_nat_snmp_hook to NULL. Depend
on such obscure assumptions is not a good idea.

Last, in nfnetlink_cttimeout, we use kfree_rcu to free the time object,
so in cttimeout_exit, invoking rcu_barrier() is not necessary at all,
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c
index da9df2d..22fc321 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_unregister_notifier(struct net *net,
 	BUG_ON(notify != new);
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->ct.nf_conntrack_event_cb, NULL);
 	mutex_unlock(&nf_ct_ecache_mutex);
+	/* synchronize_rcu() is called from ctnetlink_exit. */
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_unregister_notifier);
 
@@ -326,6 +327,7 @@ void nf_ct_expect_unregister_notifier(struct net *net,
 	BUG_ON(notify != new);
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(net->ct.nf_expect_event_cb, NULL);
 	mutex_unlock(&nf_ct_ecache_mutex);
+	/* synchronize_rcu() is called from ctnetlink_exit. */
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_expect_unregister_notifier);