Subject: [PATCH] Check net->nfnl for NULL in ctnetlink_conntrack_event to, avoid Oops on container destroy

From: Tim Gardner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:03:13 -0600

Patrick,

I received this patch from a developer that uses lxc and network name 
spaces. I don't know the locking semantics well enough for CT to judge 
whether this fix is sufficient. Bug info can be found at 
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/843892 . See comment #7 for his analysis.

rtg
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Tim Gardner [email-masked]
>>From dcb64e27c7daaf4affe5b1a617b45a9a0364b4ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Bligh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:29:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Check net->nfnl for NULL in ctnetlink_conntrack_event to
 avoid Oops on container destroy

Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <[email-masked]>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 482e90c..0790d0a 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -570,6 +570,11 @@ ctnetlink_conntrack_event(unsigned int events, struct nf_ct_event *item)
 		return 0;
 
 	net = nf_ct_net(ct);
+
+	/* container deinit, netlink may have died before death_by_timeout */
+	if (!net->nfnl)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (!item->report && !nfnetlink_has_listeners(net, group))
 		return 0;
 
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