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* net: kernel BUG() in net/netns/generic.h:45
@ 2012-04-05 22:20 Sasha Levin
  2012-04-05 23:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2012-04-05 22:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem, Eric Dumazet, Eric Van Hensbergen, ebiederm
  Cc: Dave Jones, linux-kernel, netdev

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.

Thanks!

-- 

Sasha.


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2012-04-05 22:20 net: kernel BUG() in net/netns/generic.h:45 Sasha Levin
2012-04-05 23:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-06  9:04   ` Sasha Levin
2012-04-07  1:16     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-07  1:31       ` [PATCH 1/2], net:In, unregister_netdevice_notifier, unregister, the, netdevices.
2012-04-07  1:33       ` [PATCH 1/2] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-07  1:35         ` [PATCH 2/2] phonet: Sort out initiailziation and cleanup code Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-10  6:39           ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2012-04-10 10:47           ` Sasha Levin
2012-04-13 15:05           ` David Miller
2012-04-13 15:05         ` [PATCH 1/2] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices David Miller
2012-04-14  0:03           ` Eric W. Biederman

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