netdev - Re: NULL pointer dereference in xt_register

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Date:	Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:12:49 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in xt_register_target()

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 17:55 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 23:43 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > Hi, folks,
> > 
> > The latest net-next tree can't boot due to a NULL ptr def
> > bug in the kernel, the full backtrack is:
> > 
> > http://img1.douban.com/view/photo/photo/public/p1697139550.jpg
> > 
> > the kernel .config file is:
> > 
> > http://pastebin.com/9YTnkqKN
> > 
> > I don't have time to look into the issue. If you need other info,
> > please let me know.
> 
> It seems xt_nat_init() is called before xt_init(), so xt array is not
> yet setup.
> 
> 

Seems the following patch should help, I have to try it ;)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
index 8d987c3..afcea11 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
@@ -1390,6 +1390,6 @@ static void __exit xt_fini(void)
 	kfree(xt);
 }
 
-module_init(xt_init);
+core_initcall(xt_init);
 module_exit(xt_fini);
 



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