Re: re L4 conntracking netns conversion

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On 2013/03/08 09:32, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On 2013/03/07 19:50, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> Lots of netns changes!
>>>
>>> I can't verify right now, but unless I'm not mistaken,
>>> every L4 protocol conversion is buggy/oopsable/remotely ddosable
>>> because per-netns stuff is initialized after protocol is hooked into
>>> master dispatcher.
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't we do register_pernet_subsys before we register hooks and l4proto?
>> Sorry I don't quite understand what you mean. :(
> 
>>> See c296bb4d5d417d466c9bcc8afef68a3db5449a64.
> 
> The registration in the referenced commit has register_pernet_subsys
> happening after nf_ct_l4_proto_register.  The unregistration is also
> happening in that order so something seems fishy.  If there is
> an ordering dependency between the two unregistration should happen
> in the opposite order of registration.
> 

Yes, we have the incorrect order when registering l4proto_sctp/gre/dccp/udplite.

> However, I don't know the code well enough to know if it is a problem or
> not.
> 

Had better to fix this problem, Since the l4proto may access the memory before
register_pernet_subsys allocates it.

Thanks

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