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Mark Tomlinson 19a5fb4cea netfilter: x_tables: Use correct memory barriers.
[ Upstream commit 175e476b8cdf2a4de7432583b49c871345e4f8a1 ]

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 cc00bcaa5899 (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: 7f5c6d4f66 ("netfilter: get rid of atomic ops in fast path")
Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-03-30 14:35:28 +02:00
arch arm64: kdump: update ppos when reading elfcorehdr 2021-03-30 14:35:27 +02:00
block block: Suppress uevent for hidden device when removed 2021-03-30 14:35:23 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: x86 - Regularize glue function prototypes 2021-03-20 10:39:47 +01:00
Documentation KVM: arm64: Reject VM creation when the default IPA size is unsupported 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
drivers RDMA/cxgb4: Fix adapter LE hash errors while destroying ipv6 listening server 2021-03-30 14:35:28 +02:00
fs squashfs: fix xattr id and id lookup sanity checks 2021-03-30 14:35:23 +02:00
include netfilter: x_tables: Use correct memory barriers. 2021-03-30 14:35:28 +02:00
init fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation 2021-02-10 09:25:29 +01:00
ipc
kernel PM: EM: postpone creating the debugfs dir till fs_initcall 2021-03-30 14:35:28 +02:00
lib PCI: Fix pci_register_io_range() memory leak 2021-03-17 17:03:44 +01:00
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mm hugetlbfs: hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash() cleanup 2021-03-30 14:35:19 +02:00
net netfilter: x_tables: Use correct memory barriers. 2021-03-30 14:35:28 +02:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:03:33 +01:00
scripts ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount 2021-03-09 11:09:39 +01:00
security integrity: double check iint_cache was initialized 2021-03-30 14:35:24 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: ignore invalid NHLT table 2021-03-30 14:35:20 +02:00
tools libbpf: Fix BTF dump of pointer-to-array-of-struct 2021-03-30 14:35:27 +02:00
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virt KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
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