From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: netfilter 02/12: nf_conntrack: use hlist_add_head_rcu() in nf_conntrack_set_hashsize()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:02:33 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326190227.23365.25636.sendpatchset@x2.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090326190225.23365.96356.sendpatchset@x2.localnet>
commit 78f3648601fdc7a8166748bbd6d0555a88efa24a
Author: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Wed Mar 25 17:24:34 2009 +0100
netfilter: nf_conntrack: use hlist_add_head_rcu() in nf_conntrack_set_hashsize()
Using hlist_add_head() in nf_conntrack_set_hashsize() is quite dangerous.
Without any barrier, one CPU could see a loop while doing its lookup.
Its true new table cannot be seen by another cpu, but previous table is still
readable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 55befe5..54e983f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_set_hashsize(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash, hnode);
hlist_del_rcu(&h->hnode);
bucket = __hash_conntrack(&h->tuple, hashsize, rnd);
- hlist_add_head(&h->hnode, &hash[bucket]);
+ hlist_add_head_rcu(&h->hnode, &hash[bucket]);
}
}
old_size = nf_conntrack_htable_size;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 19:02 netfilter 00/12: Netfilter fixes/2.6.30 update part II Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 01/12: fix xt_LED build failure Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 03/12: factorize ifname_compare() Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 04/12: ctnetlink: add callbacks to the per-proto nlattrs Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netlink 05/12: add nla_policy_len() Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 06/12: limit the length of the helper name Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 07/12: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: fix incorrect loop detection Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 08/12: nf_conntrack: use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and get rid of call_rcu() Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 09/12: ctnetlink: allocate right-sized ctnetlink skb Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 10/12: nf_conntrack: add generic function to get len of generic policy Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` netfilter 11/12: nf_conntrack: calculate per-protocol nlattr size Patrick McHardy
2009-03-26 19:02 ` ctnetlink 12/12: compute generic part of event more acurately Patrick McHardy
2009-03-27 5:46 ` netfilter 00/12: Netfilter fixes/2.6.30 update part II David Miller
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