The slab name ends up being visible in the directory structure under
/sys, and even if you don't have access rights to the file you can see
the filenames.
Just use a 64-bit counter instead of the pointer to the 'net' structure
to generate a unique name.
This code will go away in 4.7 when the conntrack code moves to a single
kmemcache, but this is the backportable simple solution to avoiding
leaking kernel pointers to user space.
Fixes:
5b3501faa874 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
int nf_conntrack_init_net(struct net *net)
{
+ static atomic64_t unique_id;
int ret = -ENOMEM;
int cpu;
if (!net->ct.stat)
goto err_pcpu_lists;
- net->ct.slabname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nf_conntrack_%p", net);
+ net->ct.slabname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nf_conntrack_%llu",
+ (u64)atomic64_inc_return(&unique_id));
if (!net->ct.slabname)
goto err_slabname;