[PATCH 1/3][Groovy] Revert "netfilter: x_tables: Update remaining dereference to RCU"

[Tim Gardner]

From: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson at alliedtelesis.co.nz>

CVE-2021-29650

This reverts commit 443d6e86f821a165fae3fc3fc13086d27ac140b1.

This (and the following) patch basically re-implemented the RCU
mechanisms of patch 784544739a25. That patch was replaced because of the
performance problems that it created when replacing tables. Now, we have
the same issue: the call to synchronize_rcu() makes replacing tables
slower by as much as an order of magnitude.

Revert these patches and fix the issue in a different way.

Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson at alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit abe7034b9a8d57737e80cc16d60ed3666990bdbf)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 2 +-
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c  | 2 +-
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
index 7763fce3daae..796aae61244d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ static int compat_get_entries(struct net *net,
 	xt_compat_lock(NFPROTO_ARP);
 	t = xt_find_table_lock(net, NFPROTO_ARP, get.name);
 	if (!IS_ERR(t)) {
-		const struct xt_table_info *private = xt_table_get_private_protected(t);
+		const struct xt_table_info *private = t->private;
 		struct xt_table_info info;
 
 		ret = compat_table_info(private, &info);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index 39bef725b09e..f07a7c2ae74d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ compat_get_entries(struct net *net, struct compat_ipt_get_entries __user *uptr,
 	xt_compat_lock(AF_INET);
 	t = xt_find_table_lock(net, AF_INET, get.name);
 	if (!IS_ERR(t)) {
-		const struct xt_table_info *private = xt_table_get_private_protected(t);
+		const struct xt_table_info *private = t->private;
 		struct xt_table_info info;
 		ret = compat_table_info(private, &info);
 		if (!ret && get.size == info.size)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 5888dc957ba0..c22793283f57 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ compat_get_entries(struct net *net, struct compat_ip6t_get_entries __user *uptr,
 	xt_compat_lock(AF_INET6);
 	t = xt_find_table_lock(net, AF_INET6, get.name);
 	if (!IS_ERR(t)) {
-		const struct xt_table_info *private = xt_table_get_private_protected(t);
+		const struct xt_table_info *private = t->private;
 		struct xt_table_info info;
 		ret = compat_table_info(private, &info);
 		if (!ret && get.size == info.size)
-- 
2.17.1