The netlink interface to dump the connection tracking table has a race when entries are deleted at the same time. A customer reported a crash and the backtrace showed thatctnetlink_dump_table was running while a conntrack entry wasbeing destroyed. (see https://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6402). According to RCU documentation, when using hlist_nulls the reader must handle the case of seeing a deleted entry and not proceed further down the linked list. The old code would continue which caused the scan to walk into the free list. This patch uses locking (rather than RCU) for this operation which is guaranteed safe, and no longer requires getting reference while doing dump operation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c 2010-11-25 21:49:11.401158365 -0800 +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c 2010-11-25 22:18:08.164421697 -0800 @@ -642,25 +642,23 @@ ctnetlink_dump_table(struct sk_buff *skb struct nfgenmsg *nfmsg = nlmsg_data(cb->nlh); u_int8_t l3proto = nfmsg->nfgen_family; - rcu_read_lock(); + spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock); last = (struct nf_conn *)cb->args[1]; for (; cb->args[0] < net->ct.htable_size; cb->args[0]++) { restart: - hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu(h, n, &net->ct.hash[cb->args[0]], + hlist_nulls_for_each_entry(h, n, &net->ct.hash[cb->args[0]], hnnode) { if (NF_CT_DIRECTION(h) != IP_CT_DIR_ORIGINAL) continue; ct = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(h); - if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->ct_general.use)) - continue; /* Dump entries of a given L3 protocol number. * If it is not specified, ie. l3proto == 0, * then dump everything. */ if (l3proto && nf_ct_l3num(ct) != l3proto) - goto releasect; + continue; if (cb->args[1]) { if (ct != last) - goto releasect; + continue; cb->args[1] = 0; } if (ctnetlink_fill_info(skb, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).pid, @@ -678,8 +676,6 @@ restart: if (acct) memset(acct, 0, sizeof(struct nf_conn_counter[IP_CT_DIR_MAX])); } -releasect: - nf_ct_put(ct); } if (cb->args[1]) { cb->args[1] = 0; @@ -687,7 +683,7 @@ releasect: } } out: - rcu_read_unlock(); + spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock); if (last) nf_ct_put(last); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
