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netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix the hash random initializing race
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nf_conntrack_alloc() isn't called with nf_conntrack_lock locked, so hash
random initializing code maybe executed more than once on different
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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Changli Gao authored and Patrick McHardy committed Sep 16, 2010
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19 changes: 13 additions & 6 deletions net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
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Expand Up @@ -65,8 +65,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_max);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(nf_conntrack_untracked);

static int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd_initted;
static unsigned int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd;
static unsigned int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd __read_mostly;

static u_int32_t __hash_conntrack(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple,
u16 zone, unsigned int size, unsigned int rnd)
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{
struct nf_conn *ct;

if (unlikely(!nf_conntrack_hash_rnd_initted)) {
get_random_bytes(&nf_conntrack_hash_rnd,
sizeof(nf_conntrack_hash_rnd));
nf_conntrack_hash_rnd_initted = 1;
if (unlikely(!nf_conntrack_hash_rnd)) {
unsigned int rand;

/*
* Why not initialize nf_conntrack_rnd in a "init()" function ?
* Because there isn't enough entropy when system initializing,
* and we initialize it as late as possible.
*/
do {
get_random_bytes(&rand, sizeof(rand));
} while (!rand);
cmpxchg(&nf_conntrack_hash_rnd, 0, rand);
}

/* We don't want any race condition at early drop stage */
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