From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: netfilter: ctnetlink: deliver events for conntracks changed from userspace
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:32:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D9F64E.4050304@trash.net> (raw)
Pablo, I'm looking at a regression introduced by this patch
and I'm not sure about the intentions:
> +int nf_ct_expect_related(struct nf_conntrack_expect *expect)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
> + ret = __nf_ct_expect_check(expect);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + goto out;
This is unfortunately broken since we return 0 when refreshing an
existing expectation. This will create an identical expectation
for each refresh.
>
> nf_ct_expect_insert(expect);
> + atomic_inc(&expect->use);
This I don't understand - the caller is holding a reference, why
do we need another one?
> + spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
> nf_ct_expect_event(IPEXP_NEW, expect);
> - ret = 0;
> + nf_ct_expect_put(expect);
> + return ret;
> out:
> spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
> return ret;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_expect_related);
>
> +int nf_ct_expect_related_report(struct nf_conntrack_expect *expect,
> + u32 pid, int report)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
> + ret = __nf_ct_expect_check(expect);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + goto out;
Same problem
> + nf_ct_expect_insert(expect);
> +out:
> + spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
> + if (ret == 0)
> + nf_ct_expect_event_report(IPEXP_NEW, expect, pid, report);
But here we don't take the reference, despite having the exact
same situation.
The next question would be - why do we need those two functions at
all? Aside from the apparently unnecessary reference counting, the
only difference is reporting, and that actually uses the exact
same code path.
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_ct_expect_related_report);
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 12:32 Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-04-06 14:39 ` netfilter: ctnetlink: deliver events for conntracks changed from userspace Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-04-06 14:50 ` Patrick McHardy
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