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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2008-08-18 21:31:46 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-08-18 21:31:46 -0700
commitfab00c5d15091546be681426c60b2ed2c10513bf (patch)
treeb2b2933ae23fdc33410b48f00c0b7a5f6fc76bad
parentcb1cb5c47457ff2b604dac2da44cab4d39d11459 (diff)
netfilter: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh
This patch removes a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding a spin lock with bottom halves disabled in ctnetlink_change_helper(). This problem was introduced in 2.6.23 with the netfilter extension infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index a5b95ccb3ce7..a8752031adcb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_helper(struct nf_conn *ct, struct nlattr *cda[])
/* need to zero data of old helper */
memset(&help->help, 0, sizeof(help->help));
} else {
- help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_KERNEL);
+ help = nf_ct_helper_ext_add(ct, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (help == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
}