2003-07-25 20:40:34

by Harald Welte

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Subject: [PATCH 2.4] netfilter refcount fix

Hi Dave!

This is the 7th of a set of bugfixes (all tested against 2.4.22-pre7).
You might need to apply them incrementally (didn't test it in a
different order). You will receive 2.6 merges of those patches soon.


Author: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>

Drop reference to conntrack after removing confirmed expectation


Please apply,


diff -Nru --exclude .depend --exclude '*.o' --exclude '*.ko' --exclude '*.ver' --exclude '.*.flags' --exclude '*.orig' --exclude '*.rej' --exclude '*.cmd' --exclude '*.mod.c' --exclude '*~' linux-2.4.22-pre7-plain/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c linux-2.4.22-pre7-nfsubm/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c
--- linux-2.4.22-pre7-plain/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c 2003-07-19 10:12:19.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.22-pre7-nfsubm/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c 2003-07-19 10:37:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
}

/* delete all unconfirmed expectations for this conntrack */
-static void remove_expectations(struct ip_conntrack *ct)
+static void remove_expectations(struct ip_conntrack *ct, int drop_refcount)
{
struct list_head *exp_entry, *next;
struct ip_conntrack_expect *exp;
@@ -272,8 +272,11 @@
* the un-established ones only */
if (exp->sibling) {
DEBUGP("remove_expectations: skipping established %p of %p\n", exp->sibling, ct);
- /* Indicate that this expectations parent is dead */
- exp->expectant = NULL;
+ if (drop_refcount) {
+ /* Indicate that this expectations parent is dead */
+ ip_conntrack_put(exp->expectant);
+ exp->expectant = NULL;
+ }
continue;
}

@@ -298,7 +301,7 @@
&ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY]);

/* Destroy all un-established, pending expectations */
- remove_expectations(ct);
+ remove_expectations(ct, 1);
}

static void
@@ -1140,7 +1143,7 @@
{
if (i->ctrack->helper == me) {
/* Get rid of any expected. */
- remove_expectations(i->ctrack);
+ remove_expectations(i->ctrack, 0);
/* And *then* set helper to NULL */
i->ctrack->helper = NULL;
}
--
- Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://www.netfilter.org/
============================================================================
"Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie


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