[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "netfilter: nf_tables: disable preemption when restoring chain counters" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    netfilter: nf_tables: disable preemption when restoring chain counters

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 648c4ee5332ecd34e180cb050acb0b73ac567abc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:04:18 +0100
Subject: netfilter: nf_tables: disable preemption when restoring chain
 counters

commit e8781f70a5b210a1b08cff8ce05895ebcec18d83 upstream.

With CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y

[22144.496057] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: iptables-compat/10406
[22144.496061] caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x1b
[22144.496065] CPU: 2 PID: 10406 Comm: iptables-compat Not tainted 3.19.0-rc4+ #
[...]
[22144.496092] Call Trace:
[22144.496098]  [<ffffffff8145b9fa>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b
[22144.496104]  [<ffffffff81244f52>] check_preemption_disabled+0xd6/0xe8
[22144.496110]  [<ffffffff81244f90>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x1b
[22144.496120]  [<ffffffffa07c557e>] nft_stats_alloc+0x94/0xc7 [nf_tables]
[22144.496130]  [<ffffffffa07c73d2>] nf_tables_newchain+0x471/0x6d8 [nf_tables]
[22144.496140]  [<ffffffffa07c5ef6>] ? nft_trans_alloc+0x18/0x34 [nf_tables]
[22144.496154]  [<ffffffffa063c8da>] nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x2b4/0x457 [nfnetlink]

Reported-by: Andreas Schultz <aschultz at tpip.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 594afb3e7c40..fe551ca01a98 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -889,9 +889,11 @@ static struct nft_stats __percpu *nft_stats_alloc(const struct nlattr *attr)
 	/* Restore old counters on this cpu, no problem. Per-cpu statistics
 	 * are not exposed to userspace.
 	 */
+	preempt_disable();
 	stats = this_cpu_ptr(newstats);
 	stats->bytes = be64_to_cpu(nla_get_be64(tb[NFTA_COUNTER_BYTES]));
 	stats->pkts = be64_to_cpu(nla_get_be64(tb[NFTA_COUNTER_PACKETS]));
+	preempt_enable();

 	return newstats;
 }