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| author | Reshetova, Elena <elena.reshetova@intel.com> | 2017-03-16 10:03:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2017-03-17 12:49:43 +0100 |
| commit | b54ab92b84b6161f91b1ad9160199422b3699009 (patch) | |
| tree | f51f7300565a7d11414da624a9e65afa21e84221 /include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h | |
| parent | 3c679cba588a46ba81a264673e192bbd3c92455b (diff) | |
netfilter: refcounter conversions
refcount_t type and corresponding API (see include/linux/refcount.h)
should be used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h index 5cc5e9e6171a..d40b89355fdd 100644 --- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h +++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timeout.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <net/net_namespace.h> #include <linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h> #include <linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tuple_common.h> +#include <linux/refcount.h> #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h> #include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h> @@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ struct ctnl_timeout { struct list_head head; struct rcu_head rcu_head; - atomic_t refcnt; + refcount_t refcnt; char name[CTNL_TIMEOUT_NAME_MAX]; __u16 l3num; struct nf_conntrack_l4proto *l4proto; |