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netfilter: ipset: Fix sleeping memory allocation in atomic context
Commit 00590fd introduced RCU locking in list type and in doing so introduced a memory allocation in list_set_add, which is done in an atomic context, due to the fact that ipset rcu list modifications are serialised with a spin lock. The reason why we can't use a mutex is that in addition to modifying the list with ipset commands, it's also being modified when a particular ipset rule timeout expires aka garbage collection. This gc is triggered from set_cleanup_entries, which in turn is invoked from a timer thus requiring the lock to be bh-safe. Concretely the following call chain can lead to "sleeping function called in atomic context" splat: call_ad -> list_set_uadt -> list_set_uadd -> kzalloc(, GFP_KERNEL). And since GFP_KERNEL allows initiating direct reclaim thus potentially sleeping in the allocation path. To fix the issue change the allocation type to GFP_ATOMIC, to correctly reflect that it is occuring in an atomic context. Fixes: 00590fd ("netfilter: ipset: Introduce RCU locking in list type") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
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