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authorJoerg Marx <joerg.marx@secunet.com>2010-05-20 15:55:30 +0200
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2010-05-20 15:55:30 +0200
commitfc350777c705a39a312728ac5e8a6f164a828f5d (patch)
tree62aa121cd62e416a505d35de9b5d77ab8ae89f66 /net/netfilter
parenta1d7c1b4b8dfbc5ecadcff9284d64bb6ad4c0196 (diff)
netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix a race in __nf_conntrack_confirm against nf_ct_get_next_corpse()
This race was triggered by a 'conntrack -F' command running in parallel to the insertion of a hash for a new connection. Losing this race led to a dead conntrack entry effectively blocking traffic for a particular connection until timeout or flushing the conntrack hashes again. Now the check for an already dying connection is done inside the lock. Signed-off-by: Joerg Marx <joerg.marx@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index b83c530c5e0..eeeb8bc7398 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -424,6 +424,16 @@ __nf_conntrack_confirm(struct sk_buff *skb)
spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+ /* We have to check the DYING flag inside the lock to prevent
+ a race against nf_ct_get_next_corpse() possibly called from
+ user context, else we insert an already 'dead' hash, blocking
+ further use of that particular connection -JM */
+
+ if (unlikely(nf_ct_is_dying(ct))) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+ return NF_ACCEPT;
+ }
+
/* See if there's one in the list already, including reverse:
NAT could have grabbed it without realizing, since we're
not in the hash. If there is, we lost race. */