netfilter: cttimeout: fix use after free error when delete netns

In general, when we want to delete a netns, cttimeout_net_exit will
be called before ipt_unregister_table, i.e. before ctnl_timeout_put.

But after call kfree_rcu in cttimeout_net_exit, we will still decrease
the timeout object's refcnt in ctnl_timeout_put, this is incorrect,
and will cause a use after free error.

It is easy to reproduce this problem:
  # while : ; do
  ip netns add xxx
  ip netns exec xxx nfct add timeout testx inet icmp timeout 200
  ip netns exec xxx iptables -t raw -p icmp -I OUTPUT -j CT --timeout testx
  ip netns del xxx
  done

  =======================================================================
  BUG kmalloc-96 (Tainted: G    B       E  ): Poison overwritten
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  INFO: 0xffff88002b5161e8-0xffff88002b5161e8. First byte 0x6a instead of
  0x6b
  INFO: Allocated in cttimeout_new_timeout+0xd4/0x240 [nfnetlink_cttimeout]
  age=104 cpu=0 pid=3330
  ___slab_alloc+0x4da/0x540
  __slab_alloc+0x20/0x40
  __kmalloc+0x1c8/0x240
  cttimeout_new_timeout+0xd4/0x240 [nfnetlink_cttimeout]
  nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x21a/0x230 [nfnetlink]
  [ ... ]

So only when the refcnt decreased to 0, we call kfree_rcu to free the
timeout object. And like nfnetlink_acct do, use atomic_cmpxchg to
avoid race between ctnl_timeout_try_del and ctnl_timeout_put.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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