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Commit 9bc6c124 authored by Mark Tomlinson's avatar Mark Tomlinson Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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netfilter: x_tables: Use correct memory barriers.

commit 175e476b upstream.

When a new table value was assigned, it was followed by a write memory
barrier. This ensured that all writes before this point would complete
before any writes after this point. However, to determine whether the
rules are unused, the sequence counter is read. To ensure that all
writes have been done before these reads, a full memory barrier is
needed, not just a write memory barrier. The same argument applies when
incrementing the counter, before the rules are read.

Changing to using smp_mb() instead of smp_wmb() fixes the kernel panic
reported in cc00bcaa (which is still present), while still
maintaining the same speed of replacing tables.

The smb_mb() barriers potentially slow the packet path, however testing
has shown no measurable change in performance on a 4-core MIPS64
platform.

Fixes: 7f5c6d4f

 ("netfilter: get rid of atomic ops in fast path")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
[Ported to stable, affected barrier is added by d3d40f23

 in mainline]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNobuhiro Iwamatsu (CIP) <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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