Commit fab00c5d authored by Pablo Neira Ayuso's avatar Pablo Neira Ayuso Committed by David S. Miller

netfilter: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh

This patch removes a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding a spin lock with
bottom halves disabled in ctnetlink_change_helper().

This problem was introduced in 2.6.23 with the netfilter extension
infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cb1cb5c4
......@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, struct nlattr *cda[])
/* need to zero data of old helper */
memset(&help->help, 0, sizeof(help->help));
} else {
help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_KERNEL);
help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (help == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
}
......
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