Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: ensure rcu_read_lock() in ipv4_find_option()

From: Matteo Croce
Date: Mon Feb 24 2020 - 14:47:54 EST


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:42 PM Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:12 PM Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > As in commit c543cb4a5f07 ("ipv4: ensure rcu_read_lock() in ipv4_link_failure()")
> > > and commit 3e72dfdf8227 ("ipv4: ensure rcu_read_lock() in cipso_v4_error()"),
> > > __ip_options_compile() must be called under rcu protection.
> >
> > This is not needed, all netfilter hooks run with rcu_read_lock held.
> >
>
> Ok, so let's drop it, thanks.

What about adding a RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() in __ip_options_compile() to
protect against future errors? Something like:

----------------------------------%<-------------------------------------
@@ -262,6 +262,9 @@ int __ip_options_compile(struct net *net,
unsigned char *iph;
int optlen, l;

+ RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_held(),
+ __FUNC__ " needs rcu_read_lock() protection");
+
if (skb) {
rt = skb_rtable(skb);
optptr = (unsigned char *)&(ip_hdr(skb)[1]);
---------------------------------->%-------------------------------------

Bye,
--
Matteo Croce
per aspera ad upstream