On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 05:38:17PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Andreas reports kernel oops during rmmod of the br_netfilter module.
> Hannes debugged the oops down to a NULL rt6info->rt6i_indev.
>
> Problem is that br_netfilter has the nasty concept of adding a fake
> rtable to skb->dst; this happens in a br_netfilter prerouting hook.
>
> A second hook (in bridge LOCAL_IN) is supposed to remove these again
> before the skb is handed up the stack.
>
> However, on module unload hooks get unregistered which means an
> skb could traverse the prerouting hook that attaches the fake_rtable,
> while the 'fake rtable remove' hook gets removed from the hooklist
> immediately after.
>
> Fixes: 34666d467cbf1e2e3c7 ("netfilter: bridge: move br_netfilter out of the
> core")
> Reported-by: Andreas Karis <[email protected]>
> Debugged-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
> ---
> David, I know you *love* the fake_rtable turd, but I think
> this patch should go directly via net and not nf tree.
> After all, this adds to bridge and removes from the netfilter part.
If this helps speed up this.
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
I also love this bridge netfilter Frankenstein a lot. Looking forward
you kill this via native bridge conntrack support for nf_tables.
Thanks.
