From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: bre Breitenberger Markus <bre@keba.com>
Cc: "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] conntrackd: Fix signal handler race-condition
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 10:30:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZjNPJ_dEJXwU_8-o@calendula> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AS8PR07MB7176A6FE25478A7C1BA4BF29CD3C2@AS8PR07MB7176.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 10:39:39AM +0000, bre Breitenberger Markus wrote:
> Install signal handlers after everything is initialized as there is a
> race condition that can happen when the process gets terminated after
> the signal handler is installed but before all fields in the global
> state are set up correctly, leading to a SIGSEGV as the cleanup code
> dereferences uninitialized pointers.
Applied, thanks
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2024-04-04 10:39 [PATCH] conntrackd: Fix signal handler race-condition bre Breitenberger Markus
2024-05-02 8:30 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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