Subject: [PATCH 2.6.25] net sockets: fix timewait namespace regression

From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:18:10 -0400

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <[email-masked]> (at Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:29:23 -0400), Mark Lord <[email-masked]> says:
> 
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:16:11 -0400
>>>
>>>> [c67499c0e772064b37ad75eb69b28fc218752636 is first bad commit
>>>> commit c67499c0e772064b37ad75eb69b28fc218752636
>>>> Author: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
>>>> Date:   Thu Jan 31 05:06:40 2008 -0800
>>>>
>>>>     [NETNS]: Tcp-v4 sockets per-net lookup.
>>>>
>>>>     Add a net argument to inet_lookup and propagate it further
>>>>     into lookup calls. Plus tune the __inet_check_established.
>>>>
>>>>     The dccp and inet_diag, which use that lookup functions
>>>>     pass the init_net into them.
>>>>
>>>>     Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
>>>>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
>>> Thanks Mark.
>>>
>>> Pavel can you take a look?  I suspect that the namespace
>>> changes or gets NULL'd out somehow and this leads to the
>>> resets because the socket can no longer be found.  Perhaps
>>> it's even a problem with time-wait socket namespace
>>> propagation.
>> ..
>>
>> My system here is now set up for quick/easy retest, if you have any
>> suggestions or patches to try out.
> 
> Please try this, from net-2.6.26 tree.
..

Works perfectly, thanks.  Looks obvious, too.
Push it out to Linus now for 2.6.25.

Thanks!

Acked-by: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>

> ----
>>>From 8d9f1744cab50acb0c6c9553be533621e01f178b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:12:54 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] [NETNS][IPV6] tcp - assign the netns for timewait sockets
> 
> Copy the network namespace from the socket to the timewait socket.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
..

> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>

> ---
>  net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
> index 876169f..717c411 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
> @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ struct inet_timewait_sock *inet_twsk_alloc(const struct sock *sk, const int stat
>  		tw->tw_hash	    = sk->sk_hash;
>  		tw->tw_ipv6only	    = 0;
>  		tw->tw_prot	    = sk->sk_prot_creator;
> +		tw->tw_net          = sk->sk_net;
>  		atomic_set(&tw->tw_refcnt, 1);
>  		inet_twsk_dead_node_init(tw);
>  		__module_get(tw->tw_prot->owner);