From e1b207dac13ddb2f8ddebc7dc9729a97421909bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:45:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: avoid race with exp->master ct Preparation for disconnecting the nf_conntrack_lock from the expectations code. Once the nf_conntrack_lock is lifted, a race condition is exposed. The expectations master conntrack exp->master, can race with delete operations, as the refcnt increment happens too late in init_conntrack(). Race is against other CPUs invoking ->destroy() (destroy_conntrack()), or nf_ct_delete() (via timeout or early_drop()). Avoid this race in nf_ct_find_expectation() by using atomic_inc_not_zero(), and checking if nf_ct_is_dying() (path via nf_ct_delete()). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- Reading git-format-patch failed