netdev - Re: [PATCH next 02/84] ipvs: Don't use current in proc_do_defense

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Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:53:30 -0500
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next 02/84] ipvs: Don't use current in proc_do_defense_mode

Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 01:01:39PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Instead store ipvs in extra2 so that proc_do_defense_mode can easily
>> find the ipvs that it's value is associated with.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>
> I am wondering if this fix should be included in v4.3 and stable.
> Can the problem occur in practice?

I believe a lookup in one network namespace followed by write in another
network namespace would do it.  So I think it would take so pretty
deliberate and more or less peculiar actions to make it happen.

I don't know how important the update_defense_level call is or how bad
it is if it does not run in a network namespace .

Eric
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