Commit 9f9aa476 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds Committed by Ben Hutchings

nf_conntrack: avoid kernel pointer value leak in slab name

commit 31b0b385 upstream.

The slab name ends up being visible in the directory structure under
/sys, and even if you don't have access rights to the file you can see
the filenames.

Just use a 64-bit counter instead of the pointer to the 'net' structure
to generate a unique name.

This code will go away in 4.7 when the conntrack code moves to a single
kmemcache, but this is the backportable simple solution to avoiding
leaking kernel pointers to user space.

Fixes: 5b3501fa ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent d4203ded
......@@ -1493,6 +1493,7 @@ static int nf_conntrack_init_init_net(void)
static int nf_conntrack_init_net(struct net *net)
{
static atomic64_t unique_id;
int ret;
atomic_set(&net->ct.count, 0);
......@@ -1504,7 +1505,8 @@ static int nf_conntrack_init_net(struct net *net)
goto err_stat;
}
net->ct.slabname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nf_conntrack_%p", net);
net->ct.slabname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nf_conntrack_%llu",
(u64)atomic64_inc_return(&unique_id));
if (!net->ct.slabname) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err_slabname;
......
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