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| author | Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> | 2017-04-01 20:55:44 +0800 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2017-04-08 23:52:16 +0200 |
| commit | 3173d5b8c89e67fa3176292ff9af06f09f365348 (patch) | |
| tree | 003c7716e5989830dfe5d1fff85718929d852a39 /net/sctp/auth.c | |
| parent | 8b5995d0633b04f9a0d321a7cc77e386440730cf (diff) | |
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netfilter: ctnetlink: make it safer when checking the ct helper name
One CPU is doing ctnetlink_change_helper(), while another CPU is doing
unhelp() at the same time. So even if help->helper is not NULL at first,
the later statement strcmp(help->helper->name, ...) may still access
the NULL pointer.
So we must use rcu_read_lock and rcu_dereference to avoid such _bad_
thing happen.
Fixes: f95d7a46bc57 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: Fix regression in CTA_HELP processing")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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