From: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vvs@openvz.org,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:07:49 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109210749.GA29440@paralelels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109205622.GA29458@breakpoint.cc>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:56:22PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com> wrote:
> > Can we allocate conntrack with zero ct_general.use and increment it at
> > the first time before inserting the conntrack into the hash table?
> > When conntrack is allocated it is attached exclusively to one skb.
> > It must be destroyed with skb, if it has not been confirmed, so we
> > don't need refcnt on this stage.
> >
> > I found only one place, where a reference counter of unconfirmed
> > conntract can incremented. It's ctnetlink_dump_table().
>
> What about skb_clone, etc? They will also increment the refcnt
> if a conntrack entry is attached to the skb.
We can not attach an unconfirmed conntrack to a few skb, because
nf_nat_setup_info can be executed concurrently for the same conntrack.
How do we avoid this race condition for cloned skb-s?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-09 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-07 10:31 [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get Andrey Vagin
2014-01-07 11:42 ` Vasily Averin
2014-01-07 15:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-07 15:25 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-08 13:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-08 14:04 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-08 17:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-08 20:18 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-08 20:23 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-09 20:32 ` Andrew Vagin
2014-01-09 20:56 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-09 21:07 ` Andrew Vagin [this message]
2014-01-09 21:26 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-09 5:24 ` Andrew Vagin
2014-01-09 15:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-09 21:46 ` Andrey Wagin
2014-01-08 13:17 ` [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get (v2) Andrey Vagin
2014-01-08 13:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-12 17:50 ` [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get (v3) Andrey Vagin
2014-01-12 20:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-14 10:51 ` Andrew Vagin
2014-01-14 11:10 ` Andrey Wagin
2014-01-14 14:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-14 17:35 ` [PATCH] [RFC] netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't relase a conntrack with non-zero refcnt Andrey Vagin
2014-01-14 17:44 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-01-14 18:53 ` Florian Westphal
2014-01-15 18:08 ` Andrew Vagin
2014-01-16 9:23 ` Florian Westphal
2014-02-02 23:30 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-02-03 13:59 ` Andrew Vagin
2014-02-03 16:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-27 13:44 ` Andrew Vagin
2014-01-29 19:21 ` [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get (v3) Pablo Neira Ayuso
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