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Commit 15cdeada authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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netfilter: fix a race in nf_ct_ext_create()



As soon as rcu_read_unlock() is called, there is no guarantee current
thread can safely derefence t pointer, rcu protected.

Fix is to copy t->alloc_size in a temporary variable.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b46ffb85
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