Under full load (unshare() in loop -> OOM conditions) we can get kernel panic: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: [<ffffffff81476c85>] nfqnl_nf_hook_drop+0x35/0x70 [..] task: ffff88012dfa3840 ti: ffff88012dffc000 task.ti: ffff88012dffc000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81476c85>] [<ffffffff81476c85>] nfqnl_nf_hook_drop+0x35/0x70 RSP: 0000:ffff88012dfffd80 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: 0000000000000008 RBX: ffffffff81add0c0 RCX: ffff88013fd80000 [..] Call Trace: [<ffffffff81474d98>] nf_queue_nf_hook_drop+0x18/0x20 [<ffffffff814738eb>] nf_unregister_net_hook+0xdb/0x150 [<ffffffff8147398f>] netfilter_net_exit+0x2f/0x60 [<ffffffff8141b088>] ops_exit_list.isra.4+0x38/0x60 [<ffffffff8141b652>] setup_net+0xc2/0x120 [<ffffffff8141bd09>] copy_net_ns+0x79/0x120 [<ffffffff8106965b>] create_new_namespaces+0x11b/0x1e0 [<ffffffff810698a7>] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x57/0xa0 [<ffffffff8104baa2>] SyS_unshare+0x1b2/0x340 [<ffffffff81608276>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xa8 Code: 65 00 48 89 e5 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 83 e8 01 48 8b 97 70 12 00 00 48 98 49 89 f4 4c 8b 74 c2 18 4d 8d 6e 08 49 81 c6 88 00 00 00 <49> 8b 5d 00 48 85 db 74 1a 48 89 df 4c 89 e2 48 c7 c6 90 68 47 Problem is that we call into the nfqueue backend to zap packets that might be queued to userspace when we unregister a netfilter hook. However, this assumes that the backend was initialized and net_generic(net, nfnl_queue_net_id) returns valid memory. This is only true if the hook unregister happens in the netns exit path. If it happens during error unwind because a netns init hook returned an error condition (e.g. out of memory), then the result of net_generic(net, nfnl_queue_net_id) is undefined. Only do the cleanup for namespaces that were on the net_namespace_list list (i.e., all netns ->init() functions were ok). Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dale Whitfield <dale.4d@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 8405a8fff3f ("netfilter: nf_qeueue: Drop queue entries on nf_unregister_hook") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- AFAICS this works fine as well -- if netns was never on the net_namespace_list no packets can be queued so we don't need to care if the nf_queue init hook got called or not. diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c index 5baa8e2..9722819 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c @@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ void nf_queue_nf_hook_drop(struct net *net, struct nf_hook_ops *ops) { const struct nf_queue_handler *qh; + /* netns wasn't initialized, error unwind in progress. + * Its possible that the nfq netns init function was not even + * called, in which case nfq pernetns data is in undefined state. + */ + if (!net->list.next) + return; + rcu_read_lock(); qh = rcu_dereference(queue_handler); if (qh) -- 2.7.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html