This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipvs: fix WARNING in __ip_vs_cleanup_batch() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipvs-fix-warning-in-__ip_vs_cleanup_batch.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a11c42c4a069684537d0d83d757c5e880a6e9b6a Author: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 31 20:07:04 2022 +0800 ipvs: fix WARNING in __ip_vs_cleanup_batch() [ Upstream commit 3d00c6a0da8ddcf75213e004765e4a42acc71d5d ] During the initialization of ip_vs_conn_net_init(), if file ip_vs_conn or ip_vs_conn_sync fails to be created, the initialization is successful by default. Therefore, the ip_vs_conn or ip_vs_conn_sync file doesn't be found during the remove. The following is the stack information: name 'ip_vs_conn_sync' WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:712 remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460 Modules linked in: Workqueue: netns cleanup_net RIP: 0010:remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460 Call Trace: <TASK> __ip_vs_cleanup_batch+0x7d/0x120 ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> Fixes: 61b1ab4583e2 ("IPVS: netns, add basic init per netns.") Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c index e913ab0096cb..d66548d2e5de 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c @@ -1373,20 +1373,36 @@ int __net_init ip_vs_conn_net_init(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs) { atomic_set(&ipvs->conn_count, 0); - proc_create_net("ip_vs_conn", 0, ipvs->net->proc_net, - &ip_vs_conn_seq_ops, sizeof(struct ip_vs_iter_state)); - proc_create_net("ip_vs_conn_sync", 0, ipvs->net->proc_net, - &ip_vs_conn_sync_seq_ops, - sizeof(struct ip_vs_iter_state)); +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS + if (!proc_create_net("ip_vs_conn", 0, ipvs->net->proc_net, + &ip_vs_conn_seq_ops, + sizeof(struct ip_vs_iter_state))) + goto err_conn; + + if (!proc_create_net("ip_vs_conn_sync", 0, ipvs->net->proc_net, + &ip_vs_conn_sync_seq_ops, + sizeof(struct ip_vs_iter_state))) + goto err_conn_sync; +#endif + return 0; + +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS +err_conn_sync: + remove_proc_entry("ip_vs_conn", ipvs->net->proc_net); +err_conn: + return -ENOMEM; +#endif } void __net_exit ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs) { /* flush all the connection entries first */ ip_vs_conn_flush(ipvs); +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS remove_proc_entry("ip_vs_conn", ipvs->net->proc_net); remove_proc_entry("ip_vs_conn_sync", ipvs->net->proc_net); +#endif } int __init ip_vs_conn_init(void)