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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kaber@trash.net
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: don't deliver events for racy packets
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:53:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225025334.4646.98606.stgit@Decadence> (raw)

This patch skips the delivery of conntrack events if the packet
was drop due to a race condition in the conntrack insertion.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---

 include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h
index c25068e..5a449b4 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ static inline int nf_conntrack_confirm(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (ct && ct != &nf_conntrack_untracked) {
 		if (!nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct) && !nf_ct_is_dying(ct))
 			ret = __nf_conntrack_confirm(skb);
-		nf_ct_deliver_cached_events(ct);
+		if (likely(ret == NF_ACCEPT))
+			nf_ct_deliver_cached_events(ct);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }


             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-25  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25  2:53 Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2009-03-16 14:07 ` [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: don't deliver events for racy packets Patrick McHardy

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