This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: nf_conntrack: use RCU safe kfree for conntrack extensions
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-nf_conntrack-use-rcu-safe-kfree-for-conntrack-extensions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From c13a84a830a208fb3443628773c8ca0557773cc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:17:27 +0200
Subject: netfilter: nf_conntrack: use RCU safe kfree for conntrack extensions
From: Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>
commit c13a84a830a208fb3443628773c8ca0557773cc7 upstream.
Commit 68b80f11 (netfilter: nf_nat: fix RCU races) introduced
RCU protection for freeing extension data when reallocation
moves them to a new location. We need the same protection when
freeing them in nf_ct_ext_free() in order to prevent a
use-after-free by other threads referencing a NAT extension data
via bysource list.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static inline void nf_ct_ext_destroy(str
static inline void nf_ct_ext_free(struct nf_conn *ct)
{
if (ct->ext)
- kfree(ct->ext);
+ kfree_rcu(ct->ext, rcu);
}
/* Add this type, returns pointer to data or NULL. */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.10/netfilter-nf_conntrack-use-rcu-safe-kfree-for-conntrack-extensions.patch
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