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nf_conntrack: avoid kernel pointer value leak in slab name
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 14 May 2016 18:11:44 +0000 (11:11 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 May 2016 01:35:18 +0000 (18:35 -0700)
commit7ef374ef659b976339f01cfb0b06006388f58b2c
tree95f657bde056b086f1fe3a58531bb83feb28c984
parent9abb19bd9efe6999877edc10ffef3d34f261c767
nf_conntrack: avoid kernel pointer value leak in slab name

commit 31b0b385f69d8d5491a4bca288e25e63f1d945d0 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: 5b3501faa874 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c