From: Patrick McHardy Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:14:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix conntrack lookup race X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d8890b7751387f58ce0a6428773de2fbc0fd596;p=linux.git netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix conntrack lookup race The RCU protected conntrack hash lookup only checks whether the entry has a refcount of zero to decide whether it is stale. This is not sufficient, entries are explicitly removed while there is at least one reference left, possibly more. Explicitly check whether the entry has been marked as dying to fix this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy --- diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index b0b06c7a94831..7508f11c5b395 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -335,7 +335,8 @@ begin: h = __nf_conntrack_find(net, tuple); if (h) { ct = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(h); - if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->ct_general.use))) + if (unlikely(nf_ct_is_dying(ct) || + !atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->ct_general.use))) h = NULL; else { if (unlikely(!nf_ct_tuple_equal(tuple, &h->tuple))) { @@ -510,7 +511,8 @@ static noinline int early_drop(struct net *net, unsigned int hash) cnt++; } - if (ct && unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->ct_general.use))) + if (ct && unlikely(nf_ct_is_dying(ct) || + !atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->ct_general.use))) ct = NULL; if (ct || cnt >= NF_CT_EVICTION_RANGE) break;