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Call to bpf_prog_put(), with help of call_rcu(), queues an RCU-callback to
free the program once a grace period has elapsed. The callback can run
together with new RCU readers that started after the last grace period.
New RCU readers can potentially see the "old" to-be-freed or already-freed
pointer to the program object before the RCU update-side NULLs it.
Reorder the operations so that the RCU update-side resets the protected
pointer before the end of the grace period after which the program will be
freed.
Fixes: d58e468b1112 ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook")
Reported-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Acked-by: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Linux kernel
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