Kernel sockets do not hold a reference for the network namespace to which they point. Socket destruction broadcasting relies on the network namespace and will cause the splat below when a kernel socket is destroyed.
This fix simply ignores kernel sockets when they are destroyed. Reported as: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC CPU: 1 PID: 9130 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.1.0-gelk-debug+ #1 Workqueue: sock_diag_events sock_diag_broadcast_destroy_work Stack: ffff8800b9c586c0 ffff8800b9c586c0 ffff8800ac4692c0 ffff8800936d4a90 ffff8800352efd38 ffffffff8469a93e ffff8800352efd98 ffffffffc09b9b90 ffff8800352efd78 ffff8800ac4692c0 ffff8800b9c586c0 ffff8800831b6ab8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8469a93e>] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffffc09b9b90>] ? inet_diag_handler_get_info+0x110/0x1fb [inet_diag] [<ffffffff845c868d>] netlink_broadcast+0x1d/0x20 [<ffffffff8469a93e>] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff845b2bf5>] sock_diag_broadcast_destroy_work+0xd5/0x160 [<ffffffff8408ea97>] process_one_work+0x147/0x420 [<ffffffff8408f0f9>] worker_thread+0x69/0x470 [<ffffffff8409fda3>] ? preempt_count_sub+0xa3/0xf0 [<ffffffff8408f090>] ? rescuer_thread+0x320/0x320 [<ffffffff84093cd7>] kthread+0x107/0x120 [<ffffffff84093bd0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1b0/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8469d31f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [<ffffffff84093bd0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1b0/0x1b0 Tested: Using a debug kernel while 'ss -E' is running: ip netns add test-ns ip netns delete test-ns Fixes: eb4cb008529c sock_diag: define destruction multicast groups Fixes: 26abe14379f8 net: Modify sk_alloc to not reference count the netns of kernel sockets. Reported-by: Dave Jones <da...@codemonkey.org.uk> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kr...@google.com> --- net/core/sock.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index e4be66f..08f16db 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ void sk_destruct(struct sock *sk) static void __sk_free(struct sock *sk) { - if (unlikely(sock_diag_has_destroy_listeners(sk))) + if (unlikely(sock_diag_has_destroy_listeners(sk) && sk->sk_net_refcnt)) sock_diag_broadcast_destroy(sk); else sk_destruct(sk); -- 2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html