From: Eric Dumazet <Eric Dumazet>
As soon as rcu_read_unlock() is called, there is no guarantee current
thread can safely derefence t pointer, rcu protected.
Fix is to copy t->alloc_size in a temporary variable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
index 7dcf7a4..8d9e4c9 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
@@ -48,15 +48,17 @@ nf_ct_ext_create(struct nf_ct_ext **ext, enum nf_ct_ext_id id, gfp_t gfp)
{
unsigned int off, len;
struct nf_ct_ext_type *t;
+ size_t alloc_size;
rcu_read_lock();
t = rcu_dereference(nf_ct_ext_types[id]);
BUG_ON(t == NULL);
off = ALIGN(sizeof(struct nf_ct_ext), t->align);
len = off + t->len;
+ alloc_size = t->alloc_size;
rcu_read_unlock();
- *ext = kzalloc(t->alloc_size, gfp);
+ *ext = kzalloc(alloc_size, gfp);
if (!*ext)
return NULL;
--
1.7.1
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