When use-gss-proxy is set to 1, write_gssp() creates a rpc client in gssp_rpc_create(), this increases netns refcount by 2, these refcounts are supposed to be released in rpcsec_gss_exit_net(), but it will never happen because rpcsec_gss_exit_net() is triggered only when netns refcount gets to 0, specifically: refcount=0 -> cleanup_net() -> ops_exit_list -> rpcsec_gss_exit_net It is a deadlock situation here, refcount will never get to 0 unless rpcsec_gss_exit_net() is called. So, in this case, the netns refcount should not be increased. In this case, kernel_connect()->unix_stream_connect() will take a netns refcount. According to commit 26abe14379f8 ("net: Modify sk_alloc to not reference count the netns of kernel sockets."), kernel sockets should not take the netns refcount, so unix_stream_connect() should not take the netns refcount when the sock is a kernel socket either. Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/unix/af_unix.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index 92345c9bb60c..af6ba67779c8 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -1317,7 +1317,8 @@ static int unix_stream_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, err = -ENOMEM; /* create new sock for complete connection */ - newsk = unix_create1(sock_net(sk), NULL, 0, sock->type); + newsk = unix_create1(sock_net(sk), NULL, + !sk->sk_net_refcnt, sock->type); if (newsk == NULL) goto out; -- 2.17.1