This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled l2tp: Avoid schedule while atomic in exit_net to the 4.9-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: l2tp-avoid-schedule-while-atomic-in-exit_net.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Oct 10 16:09:22 CEST 2017 From: Ridge Kennedy <ridge.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:59:49 +1300 Subject: l2tp: Avoid schedule while atomic in exit_net From: Ridge Kennedy <ridge.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 12d656af4e3d2781b9b9f52538593e1717e7c979 ] While destroying a network namespace that contains a L2TP tunnel a "BUG: scheduling while atomic" can be observed. Enabling lockdep shows that this is happening because l2tp_exit_net() is calling l2tp_tunnel_closeall() (via l2tp_tunnel_delete()) from within an RCU critical section. l2tp_exit_net() takes rcu_read_lock_bh() << list_for_each_entry_rcu() >> l2tp_tunnel_delete() l2tp_tunnel_closeall() __l2tp_session_unhash() synchronize_rcu() << Illegal inside RCU critical section >> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 86, name: kworker/u16:2 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 2 PID: 86 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G W O 4.4.6-at1 #2 Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.6.1-xs125300 05/09/2016 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net 0000000000000000 ffff880202417b90 ffffffff812b0013 ffff880202410ac0 ffffffff81870de8 ffff880202417bb8 ffffffff8107aee8 ffffffff81870de8 0000000000000c51 0000000000000000 ffff880202417be0 ffffffff8107b024 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812b0013>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2 [<ffffffff8107aee8>] ___might_sleep+0x148/0x240 [<ffffffff8107b024>] __might_sleep+0x44/0x80 [<ffffffff810b21bd>] synchronize_sched+0x2d/0xe0 [<ffffffff8109be6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff8105c7bb>] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x6b/0xc0 [<ffffffff816a1b00>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x30/0x40 [<ffffffff81667482>] __l2tp_session_unhash+0x172/0x220 [<ffffffff81667397>] ? __l2tp_session_unhash+0x87/0x220 [<ffffffff8166888b>] l2tp_tunnel_closeall+0x9b/0x140 [<ffffffff81668c74>] l2tp_tunnel_delete+0x14/0x60 [<ffffffff81668dd0>] l2tp_exit_net+0x110/0x270 [<ffffffff81668d5c>] ? l2tp_exit_net+0x9c/0x270 [<ffffffff815001c3>] ops_exit_list.isra.6+0x33/0x60 [<ffffffff81501166>] cleanup_net+0x1b6/0x280 ... This bug can easily be reproduced with a few steps: $ sudo unshare -n bash # Create a shell in a new namespace # ip link set lo up # ip addr add 127.0.0.1 dev lo # ip l2tp add tunnel remote 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.1 tunnel_id 1 \ peer_tunnel_id 1 udp_sport 50000 udp_dport 50000 # ip l2tp add session name foo tunnel_id 1 session_id 1 \ peer_session_id 1 # ip link set foo up # exit # Exit the shell, in turn exiting the namespace $ dmesg ... [942121.089216] BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u16:3/13872/0x00000200 ... To fix this, move the call to l2tp_tunnel_closeall() out of the RCU critical section, and instead call it from l2tp_tunnel_del_work(), which is running from the l2tp_wq workqueue. Fixes: 2b551c6e7d5b ("l2tp: close sessions before initiating tunnel delete") Signed-off-by: Ridge Kennedy <ridge.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c @@ -1415,6 +1415,9 @@ static void l2tp_tunnel_del_work(struct struct sock *sk = NULL; tunnel = container_of(work, struct l2tp_tunnel, del_work); + + l2tp_tunnel_closeall(tunnel); + sk = l2tp_tunnel_sock_lookup(tunnel); if (!sk) goto out; @@ -1737,7 +1740,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(l2tp_tunnel_create); int l2tp_tunnel_delete(struct l2tp_tunnel *tunnel) { l2tp_tunnel_inc_refcount(tunnel); - l2tp_tunnel_closeall(tunnel); if (false == queue_work(l2tp_wq, &tunnel->del_work)) { l2tp_tunnel_dec_refcount(tunnel); return 1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ridge.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/l2tp-avoid-schedule-while-atomic-in-exit_net.patch