From patchwork Mon Nov 26 16:55:04 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [014/270] netfilter: xt_limit: have r->cost != 0 case work Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:55:04 -0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 201747 Message-Id: <1353949160-26803-15-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Pablo Neira Ayuso 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Engelhardt commit 82e6bfe2fbc4d48852114c4f979137cd5bf1d1a8 upstream. 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- 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); }