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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Sebastian Pöhn" <sebastian.poehn@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nf_conntrack_h323: Fix locking in process_urq
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:42:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160115224233.GA20767@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452894918.4622.3.camel@gmail.com>

Sebastian Pöhn <sebastian.poehn@gmail.com> wrote:

[ CC netfilter-devel ]

> nf_ct_remove_expectations has to be called under nf_conntrack_expect_lock

But nf_ct_remove_expectations grabs that lock?

Added in:

commit ca7433df3a672efc88e08222cfa4b3aa965ca324
Author: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
netfilter: conntrack: seperate expect locking from nf_conntrack_lock

> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
> index 9511af0..d477375 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
> @@ -1518,7 +1518,9 @@ static int process_urq(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nf_conn *ct,
>         }
>  
>         /* Clear old expect */
> +       spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_expect_lock);
>         nf_ct_remove_expectations(ct);

... so I'd expect deadlock.

       reply	other threads:[~2016-01-15 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1452894918.4622.3.camel@gmail.com>
2016-01-15 22:42 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2016-01-15 22:57   ` nf_conntrack_h323: Fix locking in process_urq Sebastian Pöhn

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