commit a0e889bb1bdc083dbbdb02cce9698765847b841f
author Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Fri Jun 09 12:17:41 2006 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> Sat Jun 17 21:30:07 2006 -0700
tree 3f176b4be0d7821f7104303f856839579deb0091
parent 4e5ab4cb85683cf77b507ba0c4d48871e1562305

[NETFILTER]: recent match: fix "sleeping function called from invalid context"

create_proc_entry must not be called with locks held. Use a mutex
instead to protect data only changed in user context.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c
index 9686c4d..9b09e48 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 
 static LIST_HEAD(tables);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(recent_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(recent_mutex);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 static struct proc_dir_entry	*proc_dir;
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@
 	    strnlen(info->name, IPT_RECENT_NAME_LEN) == IPT_RECENT_NAME_LEN)
 		return 0;
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&recent_mutex);
 	t = recent_table_lookup(info->name);
 	if (t != NULL) {
 		t->refcnt++;
@@ -258,7 +259,7 @@
 	}
 
 	t = kzalloc(sizeof(*t) + sizeof(t->iphash[0]) * ip_list_hash_size,
-		    GFP_ATOMIC);
+		    GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (t == NULL)
 		goto out;
 	strcpy(t->name, info->name);
@@ -274,10 +275,12 @@
 	t->proc->proc_fops = &recent_fops;
 	t->proc->data      = t;
 #endif
+	spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
 	list_add_tail(&t->list, &tables);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
 	ret = 1;
 out:
-	spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&recent_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -288,17 +291,19 @@
 	const struct ipt_recent_info *info = matchinfo;
 	struct recent_table *t;
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&recent_mutex);
 	t = recent_table_lookup(info->name);
 	if (--t->refcnt == 0) {
+		spin_lock_bh(&recent_lock);
 		list_del(&t->list);
+		spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
 		recent_table_flush(t);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 		remove_proc_entry(t->name, proc_dir);
 #endif
 		kfree(t);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_bh(&recent_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&recent_mutex);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS