From 959d2726499175c6b724d87fed1dafca7582efe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:09:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] netns: Fix icmp shutdown.
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace
cleanup. There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent
and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but
failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called.
The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their
arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems
so this error should have been impossible.
It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead
of register_pernet_subsys. Which resulted in icmp being shut down
while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making
a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible.
Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in
my testing.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/ipv4/icmp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
index 382800a62b31..3f50807237e0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
@@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ static struct pernet_operations __net_initdata icmp_sk_ops = {
int __init icmp_init(void)
{
- return register_pernet_device(&icmp_sk_ops);
+ return register_pernet_subsys(&icmp_sk_ops);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(icmp_err_convert);
--
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