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 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c
index fdf5d2a1d9b4cb7f620b6e8521eb5f0193720b9e..4ad7d1d809afb37021ff2a444664d87c5553a475 100644 (file)
--- 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)
 {