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Florian Westphal committed 12c44aba661
netfilter: nft_compat: use refcnt_t type for nft_xt reference count Using standard integer type was fine while all operations on it were guarded by the nftnl subsys mutex. This isn't true anymore: 1. transactions are guarded only by a pernet mutex, so concurrent rule manipulation in different netns is racy 2. the ->destroy hook runs from a work queue after the transaction mutex has been released already. cpu0 cpu1 (net 1) cpu2 (net 2) kworker nft_compat->destroy nft_compat->init nft_compat->init if (--nft_xt->ref == 0) nft_xt->ref++ nft_xt->ref++ Switch to refcount_t. Doing this however only fixes a minor aspect, nft_compat also performs linked-list operations in an unsafe way. This is addressed in the next two patches. Fixes: f102d66b335a ("netfilter: nf_tables: use dedicated mutex to guard transactions") Fixes: 0935d5588400 ("netfilter: nf_tables: asynchronous release") Reported-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>