Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_nat: fix oops on netns removal

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On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:17:04PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Quoting Samu Kallio:
> 
>  Basically what's happening is, during netns cleanup,
>  nf_nat_net_exit gets called before ipv4_net_exit. As I understand
>  it, nf_nat_net_exit is supposed to kill any conntrack entries which
>  have NAT context (through nf_ct_iterate_cleanup), but for some
>  reason this doesn't happen (perhaps something else is still holding
>  refs to those entries?).
> 
>  When ipv4_net_exit is called, conntrack entries (including those
>  with NAT context) are cleaned up, but the
>  nat_bysource hashtable is long gone - freed in nf_nat_net_exit. The
>  bug happens when attempting to free a conntrack entry whose NAT hash
>  'prev' field points to a slot in the freed hash table (head for that
>  bin).
> 
> We ignore conntracks with null nat bindings.  But this is wrong,
> as these are in bysource hash table as well.
> 
> Restore nat-cleaning for the netns-is-being-removed case.
> 
> bug:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65191
> Fixes: c2d421e1718 ('netfilter: nf_nat: fix race when unloading protocol modules')

Applied, thanks!
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