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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@163.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nft_compat: fix crash when related match/target module is removed
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:31:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160723103116.GB3282@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469260832-58903-2-git-send-email-zlpnobody@163.com>

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 04:00:32PM +0800, Liping Zhang wrote:
> From: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
> 
> We "cache" the loaded match/target modules and reuse them, but when the
> modules are removed, we still point to them. Then we may end up with
> invalid memory references when using iptables-compat to add rules later.
> 
> Input the following commands will reproduce the kernel crash:
>   # iptables-compat -A INPUT -j LOG
>   # iptables-compat -D INPUT -j LOG
>   # rmmod xt_LOG
>   # iptables-compat -A INPUT -j LOG
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa05a9010

Applied, thanks Zhang.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-23 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-23  8:00 [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nft_compat: put back match/target module if init fail Liping Zhang
2016-07-23  8:00 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nft_compat: fix crash when related match/target module is removed Liping Zhang
2016-07-23 10:31   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-07-23 10:31 ` [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nft_compat: put back match/target module if init fail Pablo Neira Ayuso

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