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| author | Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> | 2024-11-29 16:30:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org> | 2024-12-15 17:58:02 +0100 |
| commit | e0f7cd8480b7e92ab8521b3348db1d212699d2b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ff239fe5177595547e8ffc4986edaab726c5b2c | |
| parent | 23d63a5237f7cef36bdf8aede670979a451cf7fc (diff) | |
netfilter: ipset: Hold module reference while requesting a module
User space may unload ip_set.ko while it is itself requesting a set type
backend module, leading to a kernel crash. The race condition may be
provoked by inserting an mdelay() right after the nfnl_unlock() call.
Fixes: a7b4f989a629 ("netfilter: ipset: IP set core support")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/kernel/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c index 25526bd..37a78d5 100644 --- a/kernel/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c +++ b/kernel/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c @@ -105,14 +105,19 @@ find_set_type(const char *name, u8 family, u8 revision) static bool load_settype(const char *name) { + if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) + return false; + nfnl_unlock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET); pr_debug("try to load ip_set_%s\n", name); if (request_module("ip_set_%s", name) < 0) { pr_warn("Can't find ip_set type %s\n", name); nfnl_lock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET); + module_put(THIS_MODULE); return false; } nfnl_lock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET); + module_put(THIS_MODULE); return true; } |