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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, avagin@parallels.com,
	fw@strlen.de, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't release a conntrack with non-zero refcnt
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 00:29:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140203232925.GA3695@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391465397-3856-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> index 4d1fb5d..356bef5 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> @@ -448,7 +448,9 @@ nf_conntrack_hash_check_insert(struct nf_conn *ct)
>  			goto out;
>  
>  	add_timer(&ct->timeout);
> -	nf_conntrack_get(&ct->ct_general);
> +	smp_wmb();
> +	/* The caller holds a reference to this object */
> +	atomic_set(&ct->ct_general.use, 2);

What happens when the skb is dropped before confirmation?
How is skb_clone etc. solved (it increments refcnt of underlying
conntrack object?)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-03 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-03 22:09 [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't release a conntrack with non-zero refcnt Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-02-03 23:29 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-02-04 10:21   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-02-04 12:46     ` Florian Westphal
2014-02-04 13:16       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-02-04 13:27         ` Florian Westphal
2014-02-04  0:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-02-05 23:00   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-02-04 13:53 ` Andrew Vagin

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