5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org
commit 02c6c24402bf1c1e986899c14ba22a10b510916b upstream.
Use maybe_get_net() since GC workqueue might race with netns exit path.
Fixes: 5f68718b34a5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: GC transaction API to avoid race with control plane") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -7052,9 +7052,14 @@ struct nft_trans_gc *nft_trans_gc_alloc( if (!trans) return NULL;
+ trans->net = maybe_get_net(net); + if (!trans->net) { + kfree(trans); + return NULL; + } + refcount_inc(&set->refs); trans->set = set; - trans->net = get_net(net); trans->seq = gc_seq;
return trans;