From patchwork Tue Sep 25 23:34:11 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: netfilter: xt_limit: have r->cost != 0 case work Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:34:11 -0000 From: Pablo Neira X-Patchwork-Id: 186922 Message-Id: <1348616051-5694-2-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Engelhardt Commit v2.6.19-rc1~1272^2~41 tells us that r->cost != 0 can happen when a running state is saved to userspace and then reinstated from there. Make sure that private xt_limit area is initialized with correct values. Otherwise, random matchings due to use of uninitialized memory. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/xt_limit.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c index 5c22ce8..a4c1e45 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c @@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ static int limit_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) /* For SMP, we only want to use one set of state. */ r->master = priv; + /* User avg in seconds * XT_LIMIT_SCALE: convert to jiffies * + 128. */ + priv->prev = jiffies; + priv->credit = user2credits(r->avg * r->burst); /* Credits full. */ if (r->cost == 0) { - /* User avg in seconds * XT_LIMIT_SCALE: convert to jiffies * - 128. */ - priv->prev = jiffies; - priv->credit = user2credits(r->avg * r->burst); /* Credits full. */ r->credit_cap = priv->credit; /* Credits full. */ r->cost = user2credits(r->avg); }