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Patch "netfilter: xt_hashlimit: fix lock imbalance" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

netfilter: xt_hashlimit: fix lock imbalance

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-xt_hashlimit-fix-lock-imbalance.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From de526f401284e1638d4c97cb5a4c292ac3f37655 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:11:48 -0800
Subject: netfilter: xt_hashlimit: fix lock imbalance

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

commit de526f401284e1638d4c97cb5a4c292ac3f37655 upstream.

syszkaller found that rcu was not held in hashlimit_mt_common()

We only need to enable BH at this point.

Fixes bea74641e378 ("netfilter: xt_hashlimit: add rate match mode")
---
 net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c +1 -1
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ hashlimit_mt_common(const struct sk_buff
 		if (!dh->rateinfo.prev_window &&
 		    (dh->rateinfo.current_rate <= dh->rateinfo.burst)) {
 			spin_unlock(&dh->lock);
-			rcu_read_unlock_bh();
+			local_bh_enable();
 			return !(cfg->mode & XT_HASHLIMIT_INVERT);
 		} else {
 			goto overlimit;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/netfilter-xt_hashlimit-fix-lock-imbalance.patch queue-4.14/netfilter-use-skb_to_full_sk-in-ip6_route_me_harder.patch queue-4.14/netfilter-idletimer-be-syzkaller-friendly.patch