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Commit 3b7dabf0 authored by Liping Zhang's avatar Liping Zhang Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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netfilter: invoke synchronize_rcu after set the _hook_ to NULL



Otherwise, another CPU may access the invalid pointer. For example:
    CPU0                CPU1
     -              rcu_read_lock();
     -              pfunc = _hook_;
  _hook_ = NULL;          -
  mod unload              -
     -                 pfunc(); // invalid, panic
     -             rcu_read_unlock();

So we must call synchronize_rcu() to wait the rcu reader to finish.

Also note, in nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini, synchronize_rcu() will be invoked
by later nf_conntrack_helper_unregister, but I'm inclined to add a
explicit synchronize_rcu after set the nf_nat_snmp_hook to NULL. Depend
on such obscure assumptions is not a good idea.

Last, in nfnetlink_cttimeout, we use kfree_rcu to free the time object,
so in cttimeout_exit, invoking rcu_barrier() is not necessary at all,
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLiping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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