netfilter: ctnetlink: make it safer when updating ct->status
commit 53b56da8 upstream. After converting to use rcu for conntrack hash, one CPU may update the ct->status via ctnetlink, while another CPU may process the packets and update the ct->status. So the non-atomic operation "ct->status |= status;" via ctnetlink becomes unsafe, and this may clear the IPS_DYING_BIT bit set by another CPU unexpectedly. For example: CPU0 CPU1 ctnetlink_change_status __nf_conntrack_find_get old = ct->status nf_ct_gc_expired - nf_ct_kill - test_and_set_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT new = old | status; - ct->status = new; <-- oops, _DYING_ is cleared! Now using a series of atomic bit operation to solve the above issue. Also note, user shouldn't set IPS_TEMPLATE, IPS_SEQ_ADJUST directly, so make these two bits be unchangable too. If we set the IPS_TEMPLATE_BIT, ct will be freed by nf_ct_tmpl_free, but actually it is alloced by nf_conntrack_alloc. If we set the IPS_SEQ_ADJUST_BIT, this may cause the NULL pointer deference, as the nfct_seqadj(ct) maybe NULL. Last, add some comments to describe the logic change due to the commit a963d710 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: Fix regression in CTA_STATUS processing"), which makes me feel a little confusing. Fixes: 76507f69 ("[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use RCU for conntrack hash") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - IPS_UNCHANGEABLE_MASK was not previously defined and ctnetlink_update_status() is not needed - enum ip_conntrack_status only assigns 13 bits - Adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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