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>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index db2312eeb2a4..b8c5501d3872 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ void nf_conntrack_lock(spinlock_t *lock) __acquires(lock)
 	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 @@ static void nf_conntrack_all_lock(void)
 	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_lock(void)
 
 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);
 }