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Pablo Neira Ayuso authored
In __nf_ct_expect_check, the function refresh_timer returns 1 if a matching expectation is found and its timer is successfully refreshed. This results in nf_ct_expect_related returning 0. Note that at this point: - the passed expectation is not inserted in the expectation table and its timer was not initialized, since we have refreshed one matching/existing expectation. - nf_ct_expect_alloc uses kmem_cache_alloc, so the expectation timer is in some undefined state just after the allocation, until it is appropriately initialized. This can be a problem for the SIP helper during the expectation addition: ... if (nf_ct_expect_related(rtp_exp) == 0) { if (nf_ct_expect_related(rtcp_exp) != 0) nf_ct_unexpect_related(rtp_exp); ... Note that nf_ct_expect_related(rtp_exp) may return 0 for the timer refresh case that is detailed above. Then, if nf_ct_unexpect_related(rtcp_exp) returns != 0, nf_ct_unexpect_related(rtp_exp) is called, which does: spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock); if (del_timer(&exp->timeout)) { nf_ct_unlink_expect(exp); nf_ct_expect_put(exp); } spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock); Note that del_timer always returns false if the timer has been initialized. However, the timer was not initialized since setup_timer was not called, therefore, the expectation timer remains in some undefined state. If I'm not missing anything, this may lead to the removal an unexistent expectation. To fix this, the optimization that allows refreshing an expectation is removed. Now nf_conntrack_expect_related looks more consistent to me since it always add the expectation in case that it returns success. Thanks to Patrick McHardy for participating in the discussion of this patch. I think this may be the source of the problem described by: http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=134073514719421&w=2Reported-by:
Rafal Fitt <rafalf@aplusc.com.pl> Acked-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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