linux/include
Eric Dumazet 747edef00c netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep
commit 5b3501faa8 upstream.

nf_conntrack_cachep is currently shared by all netns instances, but
because of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU special semantics, this is wrong.

If we use a shared slab cache, one object can instantly flight between
one hash table (netns ONE) to another one (netns TWO), and concurrent
reader (doing a lookup in netns ONE, 'finding' an object of netns TWO)
can be fooled without notice, because no RCU grace period has to be
observed between object freeing and its reuse.

We dont have this problem with UDP/TCP slab caches because TCP/UDP
hashtables are global to the machine (and each object has a pointer to
its netns).

If we use per netns conntrack hash tables, we also *must* use per netns
conntrack slab caches, to guarantee an object can not escape from one
namespace to another one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
[Patrick: added unique slab name allocation]
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-23 07:37:53 -08:00
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asm-generic fcntl: rename F_OWNER_GID to F_OWNER_PGRP 2009-11-17 17:40:33 -08:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2009-09-11 09:38:37 -07:00
drm drm: remove address mask param for drm_pci_alloc() 2010-01-18 10:19:23 -08:00
keys RxRPC: Use uX/sX rather than uintX_t/intX_t types 2009-09-16 00:01:13 -07:00
linux resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits 2010-02-23 07:37:50 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (13019): video: initial support for ADV7180 2009-09-19 00:53:39 -03:00
mtd
net netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep 2010-02-23 07:37:53 -08:00
pcmcia PM / yenta: Split resume into early and late parts (rev. 4) 2009-11-03 10:54:58 +01:00
rdma trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
rxrpc
scsi libfc: fix free of fc_rport_priv with timer pending 2010-01-28 15:01:38 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/ymfpci' into for-linus 2009-09-10 15:33:09 +02:00
trace tracing: Fix event format export 2009-12-18 14:05:16 -08:00
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