Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] netns: Fix icmp shutdown.

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:52:36 -0800

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 <[email-masked]>
---
 net/ipv4/icmp.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
index 382800a..3f50807 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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