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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2009-06-13 12:21:10 +0200
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2009-06-13 12:21:10 +0200
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netfilter: nf_log: fix sleeping function called from invalid context
Fix regression introduced by 17625274 "netfilter: sysctl support of logger choice": BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /mnt/s390test/linux-2.6-tip/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:234 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3245, name: sysctl CPU: 1 Not tainted 2.6.30-rc8-tipjun10-02053-g39ae214 #1 Process sysctl (pid: 3245, task: 000000007f675da0, ksp: 000000007eb17cf0) 0000000000000000 000000007eb17be8 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000007eb17c88 000000007eb17c00 000000007eb17c00 0000000000048156 00000000003e2de8 000000007f676118 000000007eb17f10 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000007eb17be8 000000000000000d 000000007eb17c58 00000000003e2050 000000000001635c 000000007eb17be8 000000007eb17c30 Call Trace: (Ý<00000000000162e6>¨ show_trace+0x13a/0x148) Ý<00000000000349ea>¨ __might_sleep+0x13a/0x164 Ý<0000000000050300>¨ proc_dostring+0x134/0x22c Ý<0000000000312b70>¨ nf_log_proc_dostring+0xfc/0x188 Ý<0000000000136f5e>¨ proc_sys_call_handler+0xf6/0x118 Ý<0000000000136fda>¨ proc_sys_read+0x26/0x34 Ý<00000000000d6e9c>¨ vfs_read+0xac/0x158 Ý<00000000000d703e>¨ SyS_read+0x56/0x88 Ý<0000000000027f42>¨ sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 Use the nf_log_mutex instead of RCU to fix this. Reported-and-tested-by: Maran Pakkirisamy <maranpsamy@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_log.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_log.c b/net/netfilter/nf_log.c
index beb37311e1a5..2fefe147750a 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_log.c
@@ -248,14 +248,14 @@ static int nf_log_proc_dostring(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
rcu_assign_pointer(nf_loggers[tindex], logger);
mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
} else {
- rcu_read_lock();
- logger = rcu_dereference(nf_loggers[tindex]);
+ mutex_lock(&nf_log_mutex);
+ logger = nf_loggers[tindex];
if (!logger)
table->data = "NONE";
else
table->data = logger->name;
r = proc_dostring(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ mutex_unlock(&nf_log_mutex);
}
return r;