From: kaber@trash.net
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: fix nf_conntrack_l4proto_register()
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 23:12:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288822372-21245-4-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288822372-21245-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
While doing __rcu annotations work on net/netfilter I found following
bug. On some arches, it is possible we publish a table while its content
is not yet committed to memory, and lockless reader can dereference wild
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
index ed6d929..dc7bb74 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c
@@ -292,6 +292,12 @@ int nf_conntrack_l4proto_register(struct nf_conntrack_l4proto *l4proto)
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NF_CT_PROTO; i++)
proto_array[i] = &nf_conntrack_l4proto_generic;
+
+ /* Before making proto_array visible to lockless readers,
+ * we must make sure its content is committed to memory.
+ */
+ smp_wmb();
+
nf_ct_protos[l4proto->l3proto] = proto_array;
} else if (nf_ct_protos[l4proto->l3proto][l4proto->l4proto] !=
&nf_conntrack_l4proto_generic) {
--
1.7.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-03 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 22:12 [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: netfilter fixes kaber
2010-11-03 22:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: nf_conntrack: allow nf_ct_alloc_hashtable() to get highmem pages kaber
2010-11-03 22:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] netfilter: nf_nat: fix compiler warning with CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK=n kaber
2010-11-03 22:12 ` kaber [this message]
2010-11-03 22:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] ipv4: netfilter: arp_tables: fix information leak to userland kaber
2010-11-03 22:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] ipv4: netfilter: ip_tables: " kaber
2010-11-03 22:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-04 1:55 ` David Miller
2010-11-04 1:54 ` [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: netfilter fixes David Miller
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