netfilter: ctnetlink: fix conntrack creation race
authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:56:17 +0000 (15:56 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:56:17 +0000 (15:56 -0800)
Conntrack creation through ctnetlink has two races:

- the timer may expire and free the conntrack concurrently, causing an
  invalid memory access when attempting to put it in the hash tables

- an identical conntrack entry may be created in the packet processing
  path in the time between the lookup and hash insertion

Hold the conntrack lock between the lookup and insertion to avoid this.

Reported-by: Zoltan Borbely <bozo@andrews.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c

index 622d7c6..233fdd2 100644 (file)
@@ -305,9 +305,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_hash_insert(struct nf_conn *ct)
        hash = hash_conntrack(&ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple);
        repl_hash = hash_conntrack(&ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple);
 
-       spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
        __nf_conntrack_hash_insert(ct, hash, repl_hash);
-       spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_hash_insert);
 
index a040d46..3b009a3 100644 (file)
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct nlattr *cda[],
        struct nf_conn_help *help;
        struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper;
 
-       ct = nf_conntrack_alloc(&init_net, otuple, rtuple, GFP_KERNEL);
+       ct = nf_conntrack_alloc(&init_net, otuple, rtuple, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (ct == NULL || IS_ERR(ct))
                return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1212,13 +1212,14 @@ ctnetlink_new_conntrack(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb,
                        atomic_inc(&master_ct->ct_general.use);
                }
 
-               spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
                err = -ENOENT;
                if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_CREATE)
                        err = ctnetlink_create_conntrack(cda,
                                                         &otuple,
                                                         &rtuple,
                                                         master_ct);
+               spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+
                if (err < 0 && master_ct)
                        nf_ct_put(master_ct);