proc_fs was used, in af_packet, without a surrounding #ifdef, although there is no hard dependency on proc_fs. That caused the initialization of the af_packet module to fail when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n. Specifically, proc_create_net() was used in af_packet.c, and when it fails, packet_net_init() returns -ENOMEM. It will always fail when the kernel is compiled without proc_fs, because, proc_create_net() for example always returns NULL. The calling order that starts in af_packet.c is as follows: packet_init() register_pernet_subsys() register_pernet_operations() __register_pernet_operations() ops_init() ops->init() (packet_net_ops.init=packet_net_init()) proc_create_net() It worked in the past because register_pernet_subsys()'s return value wasn't checked before this Commit 36096f2f4fa0 ("packet: Fix error path in packet_init."). It always returned an error, but was not checked before, so everything was working even when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n. The fix here is simply to add the necessary #ifdef. This also fixes a similar error in tls_proc.c, that was found by Jakub Kicinski. Signed-off-by: Yonatan Linik <yonatanlinik@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 ++ net/tls/tls_proc.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 2b33e977a905..031f2b593720 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -4612,9 +4612,11 @@ static int __net_init packet_net_init(struct net *net) mutex_init(&net->packet.sklist_lock); INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&net->packet.sklist); +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS if (!proc_create_net("packet", 0, net->proc_net, &packet_seq_ops, sizeof(struct seq_net_private))) return -ENOMEM; +#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ return 0; } diff --git a/net/tls/tls_proc.c b/net/tls/tls_proc.c index 3a5dd1e07233..feeceb0e4cb4 100644 --- a/net/tls/tls_proc.c +++ b/net/tls/tls_proc.c @@ -37,9 +37,12 @@ static int tls_statistics_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v) int __net_init tls_proc_init(struct net *net) { +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS if (!proc_create_net_single("tls_stat", 0444, net->proc_net, tls_statistics_seq_show, NULL)) return -ENOMEM; +#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ + return 0; } -- 2.25.1