From fab00c5d15091546be681426c60b2ed2c10513bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:31:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh This patch removes a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding a spin lock with bottom halves disabled in ctnetlink_change_helper(). This problem was introduced in 2.6.23 with the netfilter extension infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index a5b95ccb3ce..a8752031adc 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, struct nlattr *cda[]) /* need to zero data of old helper */ memset(&help->help, 0, sizeof(help->help)); } else { - help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_KERNEL); + help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_ATOMIC); if (help == NULL) return -ENOMEM; } -- 2.20.1