The private helper data size cannot be updated. However, updates that contain NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN might bogusly hit EBUSY even if the size is the same. Fixes: 12f7a505331e ("netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c index 322ac5dd5402..752b10cae524 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c @@ -380,10 +380,14 @@ static int nfnl_cthelper_update(const struct nlattr * const tb[], struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper) { + u32 size; int ret; - if (tb[NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN]) - return -EBUSY; + if (tb[NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN]) { + size = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN])); + if (size != helper->data_len) + return -EBUSY; + } if (tb[NFCTH_POLICY]) { ret = nfnl_cthelper_update_policy(helper, tb[NFCTH_POLICY]); -- 2.20.1