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Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c index e5746b67441..eda1fba431a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ * communicating with userspace via netlink. * * (C) 2000-2002 James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> + * (C) 2003-2005 Netfilter Core Team <coreteam@netfilter.org> * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as @@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ * 2005-01-10: Added /proc counter for dropped packets; fixed so * packets aren't delivered to user space if they're going * to be dropped. + * 2005-05-26: local_bh_{disable,enable} around nf_reinject (Harald Welte) * */ #include <linux/module.h> @@ -71,7 +73,15 @@ static DECLARE_MUTEX(ipqnl_sem); static void ipq_issue_verdict(struct ipq_queue_entry *entry, int verdict) { + /* TCP input path (and probably other bits) assume to be called + * from softirq context, not from syscall, like ipq_issue_verdict is + * called. TCP input path deadlocks with locks taken from timer + * softirq, e.g. We therefore emulate this by local_bh_disable() */ + + local_bh_disable(); nf_reinject(entry->skb, entry->info, verdict); + local_bh_enable(); + kfree(entry); } |