[ 3.5.yuz extended stable ] Patch "netfilter: xt_limit: have r->cost != 0 case work" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    netfilter: xt_limit: have r->cost != 0 case work

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From c70885cd3a616168f7b7b60a0b037267169a6b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:26:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_limit: have r->cost != 0 case work

commit 82e6bfe2fbc4d48852114c4f979137cd5bf1d1a8 upstream.

Commit v2.6.19-rc1~1272^2~41 tells us that r->cost != 0 can happen when
a running state is saved to userspace and then reinstated from there.

Make sure that private xt_limit area is initialized with correct values.
Otherwise, random matchings due to use of uninitialized memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_limit.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c
index 5c22ce8..a4c1e45 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ static int limit_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)

 	/* For SMP, we only want to use one set of state. */
 	r->master = priv;
+	/* User avg in seconds * XT_LIMIT_SCALE: convert to jiffies *
+	   128. */
+	priv->prev = jiffies;
+	priv->credit = user2credits(r->avg * r->burst); /* Credits full. */
 	if (r->cost == 0) {
-		/* User avg in seconds * XT_LIMIT_SCALE: convert to jiffies *
-		   128. */
-		priv->prev = jiffies;
-		priv->credit = user2credits(r->avg * r->burst); /* Credits full. */
 		r->credit_cap = priv->credit; /* Credits full. */
 		r->cost = user2credits(r->avg);
 	}
--
1.7.9.5