netfilter: nf_conncount: split gc in two phases

The lockless workqueue garbage collector can race with packet path
garbage collector to delete list nodes, as it calls tree_nodes_free()
with the addresses of nodes that might have been free'd already from
another cpu.

To fix this, split gc into two phases.

One phase to perform gc on the connections: From a locking perspective,
this is the same as count_tree(): we hold rcu lock, but we do not
change the tree, we only change the nodes' contents.

The second phase acquires the tree lock and reaps empty nodes.
This avoids a race condition of the garbage collection vs.  packet path:
If a node has been free'd already, the second phase won't find it anymore.

This second phase is, from locking perspective, same as insert_tree().

The former only modifies nodes (list content, count), latter modifies
the tree itself (rb_erase or rb_insert).

Fixes: 5c789e131cbb9 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: Add list lock and gc worker, and RCU for init tree search")
Reviewed-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
index 8bb4ed85c262..753132e4afa8 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
@@ -500,16 +500,32 @@ static void tree_gc_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 	for (node = rb_first(root); node != NULL; node = rb_next(node)) {
 		rbconn = rb_entry(node, struct nf_conncount_rb, node);
 		if (nf_conncount_gc_list(data->net, &rbconn->list))
-			gc_nodes[gc_count++] = rbconn;
+			gc_count++;
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&nf_conncount_locks[tree]);
+	if (gc_count < ARRAY_SIZE(gc_nodes))
+		goto next; /* do not bother */
 
-	if (gc_count) {
-		tree_nodes_free(root, gc_nodes, gc_count);
+	gc_count = 0;
+	node = rb_first(root);
+	while (node != NULL) {
+		rbconn = rb_entry(node, struct nf_conncount_rb, node);
+		node = rb_next(node);
+
+		if (rbconn->list.count > 0)
+			continue;
+
+		gc_nodes[gc_count++] = rbconn;
+		if (gc_count >= ARRAY_SIZE(gc_nodes)) {
+			tree_nodes_free(root, gc_nodes, gc_count);
+			gc_count = 0;
+		}
 	}
 
+	tree_nodes_free(root, gc_nodes, gc_count);
+next:
 	clear_bit(tree, data->pending_trees);
 
 	next_tree = (tree + 1) % CONNCOUNT_SLOTS;