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Commit 6ff8315a authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: 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>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 62b68367
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