netfilter: nf_tables: nft_set_rbtree: fix spurious insertion failure
nft_rbtree_gc_elem() walks back and removes the end interval element that comes before the expired element. There is a small chance that we've cached this element as 'rbe_ge'. If this happens, we hold and test a pointer that has been queued for freeing. It also causes spurious insertion failures: $ cat test-testcases-sets-0044interval_overlap_0.1/testout.log Error: Could not process rule: File exists add element t s { 0 - 2 } ^^^^^^ Failed to insert 0 - 2 given: table ip t { set s { type inet_service flags interval,timeout timeout 2s gc-interval 2s } } The set (rbtree) is empty. The 'failure' doesn't happen on next attempt. Reason is that when we try to insert, the tree may hold an expired element that collides with the range we're adding. While we do evict/erase this element, we can trip over this check: if (rbe_ge && nft_rbtree_interval_end(rbe_ge) && nft_rbtree_interval_end(new)) return -ENOTEMPTY; rbe_ge was erased by the synchronous gc, we should not have done this check. Next attempt won't find it, so retry results in successful insertion. Restart in-kernel to avoid such spurious errors. Such restart are rare, unless userspace intentionally adds very large numbers of elements with very short timeouts while setting a huge gc interval. Even in this case, this cannot loop forever, on each retry an existing element has been removed. As the caller is holding the transaction mutex, its impossible for a second entity to add more expiring elements to the tree. After this it also becomes feasible to remove the async gc worker and perform all garbage collection from the commit path. Fixes: c9e6978e ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Switch to node list walk for overlap detection") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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