From: "billbonaparte" <programme110@gmail.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Netfilter Developer Mailing List"
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'Pablo Neira Ayuso'" <pablo@netfilter.org>,
"'Patrick McHardy'" <kaber@trash.net>, <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
<davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "'Changli Gao'" <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
"'Jozsef Kadlecsik'" <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
"'Jesper Dangaard Brouer'" <brouer@redhat.com>,
"'Andrey Vagin'" <avagin@openvz.org>
Subject: netfilter: nf_conntrack: there maybe a bug in __nf_conntrack_confirm, when it race against get_next_corpse
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:27:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02ee01cff25f$28808540$79818fc0$@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi, all:
In function __nf_conntrack_confirm, we check the conntrack if it was
alreay dead, before insert it into hash-table.
we do this because if we insert an already 'dead' hash, it will
block further use of that particular connection.
but we don't do that right.
let's consider the following case:
cpu1
cpu2
__nf_conntrack_confirm
get_next_corpse
lock corresponding hash-list
....
check nf_ct_is_dying(ct)
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
......
spin_lock_bh(&pcpu->lock);
......
set_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT, &ct->status);
nf_ct_del_from_dying_or_unconfirmed_list(ct);
spin_unlock_bh(&pcpu_lock);
add_timer(&ct->timeout);
}
ct->status |= IPS_CONFIRMD;
__nf_conntrack_hash_insert(ct);
The above case reveal two problems:
1. we may insert a dead conntrack to hash-table, it will block
further use of that particular connection.
2. operation on ct->status should be atomic, because it race aginst
get_next_corpse.
due to this reason, the operation on ct->status in
nf_nat_setup_info should be atomic as well.
if we want to resolve the first problem, we must delete the
unconfirmed conntrack from unconfirmed-list first, then check if it is
already dead.
Am I right to do this ?
Appreciate any comments and reply.
next reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 3:28 UTC|newest]
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2014-10-28 3:27 billbonaparte [this message]
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2014-10-28 3:37 ` netfilter: nf_conntrack: there maybe a bug in __nf_conntrack_confirm, when it race against get_next_corpse billbonaparte
2014-10-28 9:46 ` Florian Westphal
2014-10-28 10:11 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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2014-11-04 1:52 billbonaparte
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2014-11-06 13:00 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-11-07 6:47 Bill Bonaparte
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