netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.
The seqcount xt_recseq is used to synchronize the replacement of xt_table::private in xt_replace_table() against all readers such as ipt_do_table() To ensure that there is only one writer, the writing side disables bottom halves. The sequence counter can be acquired recursively. Only the first invocation modifies the sequence counter (signaling that a writer is in progress) while the following (recursive) writer does not modify the counter. The lack of a proper locking mechanism for the sequence counter can lead to live lock on PREEMPT_RT if the high prior reader preempts the writer. Additionally if the per-CPU lock on PREEMPT_RT is removed from local_bh_disable() then there is no synchronisation for the per-CPU sequence counter. The affected code is "just" the legacy netfilter code which is replaced by "netfilter tables". That code can be disabled without sacrificing functionality because everything is provided by the newer implementation. This will only requires the usage of the "-nft" tools instead of the "-legacy" ones. The long term plan is to remove the legacy code so lets accelerate the progress. Relax dependencies on iptables legacy, replace select with depends on, this should cause no harm to existing kernel configs and users can still toggle IP{6}_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY in any case. Make EBTABLES_LEGACY, IPTABLES_LEGACY and ARPTABLES depend on NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Hide xt_recseq and its users, xt_register_table() and xt_percpu_counter_alloc() behind NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY. Let NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY depend on !PREEMPT_RT. This will break selftest expecing the legacy options enabled and will be addressed in a following patch. Co-developed-by:Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Co-developed-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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