netfilter: fix a race in nf_ct_ext_create()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:17:32 +0000 (21:17 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:13:33 +0000 (13:13 -0700)
As soon as rcu_read_unlock() is called, there is no guarantee current
thread can safely derefence t pointer, rcu protected.

Fix is to copy t->alloc_size in a temporary variable.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c

index 7dcf7a404190e6aa3fa06e642f54279e2f30fba9..8d9e4c949b9618eafc4a7b301d305a15cab805b6 100644 (file)
@@ -48,15 +48,17 @@ nf_ct_ext_create(struct nf_ct_ext **ext, enum nf_ct_ext_id id, gfp_t gfp)
 {
        unsigned int off, len;
        struct nf_ct_ext_type *t;
+       size_t alloc_size;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        t = rcu_dereference(nf_ct_ext_types[id]);
        BUG_ON(t == NULL);
        off = ALIGN(sizeof(struct nf_ct_ext), t->align);
        len = off + t->len;
+       alloc_size = t->alloc_size;
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
-       *ext = kzalloc(t->alloc_size, gfp);
+       *ext = kzalloc(alloc_size, gfp);
        if (!*ext)
                return NULL;