netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:16:56 +0000 (11:16 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:16:56 +0000 (11:16 -0800)
nf_conntrack_cachep is currently shared by all netns instances, but
because of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU special semantics, this is wrong.

If we use a shared slab cache, one object can instantly flight between
one hash table (netns ONE) to another one (netns TWO), and concurrent
reader (doing a lookup in netns ONE, 'finding' an object of netns TWO)
can be fooled without notice, because no RCU grace period has to be
observed between object freeing and its reuse.

We dont have this problem with UDP/TCP slab caches because TCP/UDP
hashtables are global to the machine (and each object has a pointer to
its netns).

If we use per netns conntrack hash tables, we also *must* use per netns
conntrack slab caches, to guarantee an object can not escape from one
namespace to another one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
[Patrick: added unique slab name allocation]
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
include/net/netns/conntrack.h
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c

index ba1ba0c5efd1b5047d9251acee2211043e4d0805..aed23b6c8478aca6bbe582094bb0bb88b2e41036 100644 (file)
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ struct nf_conntrack_ecache;
 struct netns_ct {
        atomic_t                count;
        unsigned int            expect_count;
+       struct kmem_cache       *nf_conntrack_cachep;
        struct hlist_nulls_head *hash;
        struct hlist_head       *expect_hash;
        struct hlist_nulls_head unconfirmed;
@@ -28,5 +29,6 @@ struct netns_ct {
 #endif
        int                     hash_vmalloc;
        int                     expect_vmalloc;
+       char                    *slabname;
 };
 #endif
index 37e2b88313f26d0867cbd30c3f523043900a9fcf..9de4bd4c0dd741a24cbb601e3db8e7b38e39aef4 100644 (file)
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_max);
 struct nf_conn nf_conntrack_untracked __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_untracked);
 
-static struct kmem_cache *nf_conntrack_cachep __read_mostly;
-
 static int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd_initted;
 static unsigned int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd;
 
@@ -572,7 +570,7 @@ struct nf_conn *nf_conntrack_alloc(struct net *net,
         * Do not use kmem_cache_zalloc(), as this cache uses
         * SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.
         */
-       ct = kmem_cache_alloc(nf_conntrack_cachep, gfp);
+       ct = kmem_cache_alloc(net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep, gfp);
        if (ct == NULL) {
                pr_debug("nf_conntrack_alloc: Can't alloc conntrack.\n");
                atomic_dec(&net->ct.count);
@@ -611,7 +609,7 @@ void nf_conntrack_free(struct nf_conn *ct)
        nf_ct_ext_destroy(ct);
        atomic_dec(&net->ct.count);
        nf_ct_ext_free(ct);
-       kmem_cache_free(nf_conntrack_cachep, ct);
+       kmem_cache_free(net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep, ct);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_free);
 
@@ -1119,7 +1117,6 @@ static void nf_conntrack_cleanup_init_net(void)
 
        nf_conntrack_helper_fini();
        nf_conntrack_proto_fini();
-       kmem_cache_destroy(nf_conntrack_cachep);
 }
 
 static void nf_conntrack_cleanup_net(struct net *net)
@@ -1137,6 +1134,8 @@ static void nf_conntrack_cleanup_net(struct net *net)
        nf_conntrack_ecache_fini(net);
        nf_conntrack_acct_fini(net);
        nf_conntrack_expect_fini(net);
+       kmem_cache_destroy(net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep);
+       kfree(net->ct.slabname);
        free_percpu(net->ct.stat);
 }
 
@@ -1272,15 +1271,6 @@ static int nf_conntrack_init_init_net(void)
               NF_CONNTRACK_VERSION, nf_conntrack_htable_size,
               nf_conntrack_max);
 
-       nf_conntrack_cachep = kmem_cache_create("nf_conntrack",
-                                               sizeof(struct nf_conn),
-                                               0, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, NULL);
-       if (!nf_conntrack_cachep) {
-               printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to create nf_conn slab cache\n");
-               ret = -ENOMEM;
-               goto err_cache;
-       }
-
        ret = nf_conntrack_proto_init();
        if (ret < 0)
                goto err_proto;
@@ -1302,8 +1292,6 @@ static int nf_conntrack_init_init_net(void)
 err_helper:
        nf_conntrack_proto_fini();
 err_proto:
-       kmem_cache_destroy(nf_conntrack_cachep);
-err_cache:
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1325,6 +1313,21 @@ static int nf_conntrack_init_net(struct net *net)
                ret = -ENOMEM;
                goto err_stat;
        }
+
+       net->ct.slabname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nf_conntrack_%p", net);
+       if (!net->ct.slabname) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto err_slabname;
+       }
+
+       net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep = kmem_cache_create(net->ct.slabname,
+                                                       sizeof(struct nf_conn), 0,
+                                                       SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, NULL);
+       if (!net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep) {
+               printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to create nf_conn slab cache\n");
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto err_cache;
+       }
        net->ct.hash = nf_ct_alloc_hashtable(&nf_conntrack_htable_size,
                                             &net->ct.hash_vmalloc, 1);
        if (!net->ct.hash) {
@@ -1352,6 +1355,10 @@ err_expect:
        nf_ct_free_hashtable(net->ct.hash, net->ct.hash_vmalloc,
                             nf_conntrack_htable_size);
 err_hash:
+       kmem_cache_destroy(net->ct.nf_conntrack_cachep);
+err_cache:
+       kfree(net->ct.slabname);
+err_slabname:
        free_percpu(net->ct.stat);
 err_stat:
        return ret;