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[PATCH 4/5] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing locking while changing conntrack from nfqueue

From: pablo@netfilter.org
Date: 2012-08-17 14:09:32
Also in: netfilter-devel
Subsystem: netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Since 9cb017665 netfilter: add glue code to integrate nfnetlink_queue and
ctnetlink, we can modify the conntrack entry via nfnl_queue. However, the
change of the conntrack entry via nfnetlink_queue requires appropriate
locking to avoid concurrent updates.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 14f67a2..da4fc37 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -1896,10 +1896,15 @@ static int
 ctnetlink_nfqueue_parse(const struct nlattr *attr, struct nf_conn *ct)
 {
 	struct nlattr *cda[CTA_MAX+1];
+	int ret;
 
 	nla_parse_nested(cda, CTA_MAX, attr, ct_nla_policy);
 
-	return ctnetlink_nfqueue_parse_ct((const struct nlattr **)cda, ct);
+	spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+	ret = ctnetlink_nfqueue_parse_ct((const struct nlattr **)cda, ct);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static struct nfq_ct_hook ctnetlink_nfqueue_hook = {
-- 
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