netdev - netfilter 03/05: nf_conntrack: restrict runtime expect hashsize modifications

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Message-Id: <20100208171028.15522.50410.sendpatchset@x2.localnet>
Date:	Mon,  8 Feb 2010 18:10:29 +0100 (MET)
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: netfilter 03/05: nf_conntrack: restrict runtime expect hashsize modifications

commit 38c7233b287481dfb3327dde136801ce500aba58
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 4 18:24:06 2010 +0100

    netfilter: nf_conntrack: restrict runtime expect hashsize modifications
    
    Expectation hashtable size was simply glued to a variable with no code
    to rehash expectations, so it was a bug to allow writing to it.
    Make "expect_hashsize" readonly.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
    Cc: stable@...nel.org
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
index fdf5d2a..4ad7d1d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static void exp_proc_remove(struct net *net)
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
 }
 
-module_param_named(expect_hashsize, nf_ct_expect_hsize, uint, 0600);
+module_param_named(expect_hashsize, nf_ct_expect_hsize, uint, 0400);
 
 int nf_conntrack_expect_init(struct net *net)
 {
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