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SubjectRe: net: kernel BUG() in net/netns/generic.h:45
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When an initialization of a network namespace in setup_net() fails, we
>> try to undo everything by executing each of the exit callbacks of every
>> namespace in the network.
>>
>> The problem is, it might be possible that the net_generic array wasn't
>> initialized before we fail and try to undo everything. At that point,
>> some of the networks assume that since we're already calling the exit
>> callback, the net_generic structure is initialized and we hit the BUG()
>> in net/netns/generic.h:45 .
>>
>> I'm not quite sure whether the right fix from the following three
>> options is, and would be happy to figure it out before fixing it:
>>
>>  1. Don't assume net_generic was initialized in the exit callback, which
>> is a bit problematic since we can't query that nicely anyway (a
>> sub-option here would be adding an API to query whether the net_generic
>> structure is initialized.
>>
>>  2. Remove the BUG(), switch it to a WARN() and let each subsystem
>> handle the case of NULL on it's own. While it sounds a bit wrong, it's
>> worth mentioning that that BUG() was initially added in an attempt to
>> fix an issue in CAIF, which was fixed in a completely different way
>> afterwards, so it's not strictly necessary here.
>>
>>  3. Only call the exit callback for subsystems we have called the init
>> callback for.
>
> Your option 3 only calling the exit callbacks for subsystems we have
> initialized should be what is implemented.  Certainly it looks like we
> are attempting to only call the exit callbacks for code whose init
> callback has succeeded.
>
> What problem are you seeing?
>
> This smells suspiciously like a problem we had a little while ago caif
> was registering as a pernet device instead of a pernet subsystem,
> and because of that we had packets flying around after it had been
> unregistered and was trying access it's net_generic data.

It looks different from the caif problem a bit, here is a sample stacktrace:

[ 163.733755] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 163.734501] kernel BUG at include/net/netns/generic.h:45!
[ 163.734501] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 163.734501] CPU 2
[ 163.734501] Pid: 19145, comm: trinity Tainted: G W
3.4.0-rc1-next-20120405-sasha-dirty #57
[ 163.734501] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff824d6062>] [<ffffffff824d6062>]
phonet_pernet+0x182/0x1a0
[ 163.734501] RSP: 0018:ffff8800674d5ca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 163.734501] RAX: 000000003fffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8800678c88d8
[ 163.734501] RDX: 00000000003f4000 RSI: ffff8800678c8910 RDI: 0000000000000282
[ 163.734501] RBP: ffff8800674d5cc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 163.734501] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880068bec920
[ 163.734501] R13: ffffffff836b90c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 163.734501] FS: 00007f055e8de700(0000) GS:ffff88007d000000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 163.734501] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 163.734501] CR2: 00007f055e6bb518 CR3: 0000000070c16000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[ 163.734501] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 163.734501] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 163.734501] Process trinity (pid: 19145, threadinfo
ffff8800674d4000, task ffff8800678c8000)
[ 163.734501] Stack:
[ 163.734501] ffffffff824d5f00 ffffffff810e2ec1 ffff880067ae0000
00000000ffffffd4
[ 163.734501] ffff8800674d5cf8 ffffffff824d667a ffff880067ae0000
00000000ffffffd4
[ 163.734501] ffffffff836b90c0 0000000000000000 ffff8800674d5d18
ffffffff824d707d
[ 163.734501] Call Trace:
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff824d5f00>] ? phonet_pernet+0x20/0x1a0
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff810e2ec1>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff824d667a>] phonet_device_destroy+0x1a/0x100
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff824d707d>] phonet_device_notify+0x3d/0x50
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff810dd96e>] notifier_call_chain+0xee/0x130
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff810dd9d1>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff821cce12>] call_netdevice_notifiers+0x52/0x60
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff821cd235>] rollback_registered_many+0x185/0x270
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff821cd334>] unregister_netdevice_many+0x14/0x60
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff823123e3>] ipip_exit_net+0x1b3/0x1d0
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff82312230>] ? ipip_rcv+0x420/0x420
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff821c8515>] ops_exit_list+0x35/0x70
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff821c911b>] setup_net+0xab/0xe0
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff821c9416>] copy_net_ns+0x76/0x100
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff810dc92b>] create_new_namespaces+0xfb/0x190
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff810dca21>] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x61/0x80
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff810afd1f>] sys_unshare+0xff/0x290
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff8187622e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[ 163.734501] [<ffffffff82665539>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 163.734501] Code: e0 c3 fe 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 c7 c2 40 60 4d 82
be 01 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 80 d1 23 83 e8 48 2a c4 fe e8 73 06 c8 fe 48
85 db 75 0e <0f> 0b 0f 1f 40 00 eb fe 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 c4 10 48
89 d8
[ 163.734501] RIP [<ffffffff824d6062>] phonet_pernet+0x182/0x1a0
[ 163.734501] RSP <ffff8800674d5ca8>
[ 163.861289] ---[ end trace fb5615826c548066 ]---

It would appear that there's at least a one-off problem with the
reverse iteration.
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