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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-03-04 15:57:01 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-03-05 13:25:18 -0800
commitec68e97dedacc1c7fb20a4b23b7fa76bee56b5ff (patch)
tree767bc5044351af36ae97e3975a981ef03ff15382 /lib
parentc3442e296517aee733d62fc3fe03211598902c7d (diff)
[NETFILTER]: conntrack: fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loops
Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling: - unconfirmed entries can not be killed manually, they are removed on confirmation or final destruction of the conntrack entry, which means we might iterate forever without making forward progress. This can happen in combination with the conntrack event cache, which holds a reference to the conntrack entry, which is only released when the packet makes it all the way through the stack or a different packet is handled. - taking references to an unconfirmed entry and using it outside the locked section doesn't work, the list entries are not refcounted and another CPU might already be waiting to destroy the entry What the code really wants to do is make sure the references of the hash table to the selected conntrack entries are released, so they will be destroyed once all references from skbs and the event cache are dropped. Since unconfirmed entries haven't even entered the hash yet, simply mark them as dying and skip confirmation based on that. Reported and tested by Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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