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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 <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf 4/5] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix memory leak when do update
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:32:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170321103208.GC1940@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489934162-7415-5-git-send-email-zlpnobody@163.com>

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:36:01PM +0800, Liping Zhang wrote:
> From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
> 
> When invoke nfnl_cthelper_update, we will malloc a new expect_policy,
> then only point the helper->expect_policy to the new one but ignore
> the old one, so it will be leaked forever.
> 
> Another issue is that the user can modify the expect_class_max to a
> new value, for example, decrease the expect_class_max from 3 to 0.

If the code is allowing this, we should fix it since this is not
valid. We cannot change the number of classes once the helper has been
created.

Users may update the maximum number of expectations and its timeout
per policy, but not the number of classes once this has been created.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-21 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-19 14:35 [PATCH nf 0/5] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix some bugs Liping Zhang
2017-03-19 14:35 ` [PATCH nf 1/5] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: don't report error if NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN is empty Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 10:18   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-21 14:26     ` Liping Zhang
2017-03-19 14:35 ` [PATCH nf 2/5] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix incorrect helper->expect_class_max Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 10:27   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-21 14:35     ` Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 14:49       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-19 14:36 ` [PATCH nf 3/5] netfilter: drop const qualifier from struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 10:34   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-21 15:00     ` Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 15:03       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-19 14:36 ` [PATCH nf 4/5] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix memory leak when do update Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 10:32   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-03-21 13:23     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-19 14:36 ` [PATCH nf 5/5] netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix a race when walk the nf_ct_helper_hash table Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 10:33   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-21 14:48     ` Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 15:19       ` Liping Zhang
2017-03-21 15:26         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-22  0:06           ` Liping Zhang

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