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Commit cefa31a9 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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netfilter: nft_log: perform module load from nf_tables



modprobe calls from the nf_logger_find_get() API causes deadlock in very
special cases because they occur with the nf_tables transaction mutex held.

In the specific case of nf_log, deadlock is via:

 A nf_tables -> transaction mutex -> nft_log -> modprobe -> nf_log_syslog \
	    -> pernet_ops rwsem -> wait for C
 B netlink event -> rtnl_mutex -> nf_tables transaction mutex -> wait for A
 C close() -> ip6mr_sk_done -> rtnl_mutex -> wait for B

Earlier patch added NFLOG/xt_LOG module softdeps to avoid the need to load
the backend module during a transaction.

For nft_log we would have to add a softdep for both nfnetlink_log or
nf_log_syslog, since we do not know in advance which of the two backends
are going to be configured.

This defers the modprobe op until after the transaction mutex is released.

Tested-by: default avatarPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent a38b5b56
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