netfilter: nf_conntrack: death_by_timeout() fix

death_by_timeout() might delete a conntrack from hash list
and insert it in dying list.

 nf_ct_delete_from_lists(ct);
 nf_ct_insert_dying_list(ct);

I believe a (lockless) reader could *catch* ct while doing a lookup
and miss the end of its chain.
(nulls lookup algo must check the null value at the end of lookup and
should restart if the null value is not the expected one.
cf Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt for details)

We need to change nf_conntrack_init_net() and use a different "null" value,
guaranteed not being used in regular lists. Choose very large values, since
hash table uses [0..size-1] null values.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 5f72b94b491..5276a2dd56f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -1267,13 +1267,19 @@ err_cache:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * We need to use special "null" values, not used in hash table
+ */
+#define UNCONFIRMED_NULLS_VAL	((1<<30)+0)
+#define DYING_NULLS_VAL		((1<<30)+1)
+
 static int nf_conntrack_init_net(struct net *net)
 {
 	int ret;
 
 	atomic_set(&net->ct.count, 0);
-	INIT_HLIST_NULLS_HEAD(&net->ct.unconfirmed, 0);
-	INIT_HLIST_NULLS_HEAD(&net->ct.dying, 0);
+	INIT_HLIST_NULLS_HEAD(&net->ct.unconfirmed, UNCONFIRMED_NULLS_VAL);
+	INIT_HLIST_NULLS_HEAD(&net->ct.dying, DYING_NULLS_VAL);
 	net->ct.stat = alloc_percpu(struct ip_conntrack_stat);
 	if (!net->ct.stat) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;