locking/spinlock, netfilter: Fix nf_conntrack_lock() barriers
Even with spin_unlock_wait() fixed, nf_conntrack_lock{,_all}() is
borken as it misses a bunch of memory barriers to order the whole
global vs local locks scheme.
Even x86 (and other TSO archs) are affected.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Updated the comments. ]
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index db2312e..b8c5501 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@
spin_lock(lock);
while (unlikely(nf_conntrack_locks_all)) {
spin_unlock(lock);
+
+ /*
+ * Order the 'nf_conntrack_locks_all' load vs. the
+ * spin_unlock_wait() loads below, to ensure
+ * that 'nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock' is indeed held:
+ */
+ smp_rmb(); /* spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock) */
spin_unlock_wait(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock);
spin_lock(lock);
}
@@ -128,6 +135,14 @@
spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock);
nf_conntrack_locks_all = true;
+ /*
+ * Order the above store of 'nf_conntrack_locks_all' against
+ * the spin_unlock_wait() loads below, such that if
+ * nf_conntrack_lock() observes 'nf_conntrack_locks_all'
+ * we must observe nf_conntrack_locks[] held:
+ */
+ smp_mb(); /* spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock) */
+
for (i = 0; i < CONNTRACK_LOCKS; i++) {
spin_unlock_wait(&nf_conntrack_locks[i]);
}
@@ -135,7 +150,13 @@
static void nf_conntrack_all_unlock(void)
{
- nf_conntrack_locks_all = false;
+ /*
+ * All prior stores must be complete before we clear
+ * 'nf_conntrack_locks_all'. Otherwise nf_conntrack_lock()
+ * might observe the false value but not the entire
+ * critical section:
+ */
+ smp_store_release(&nf_conntrack_locks_all, false);
spin_unlock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock);
}