Re: Please add 2dce224f469f ("netns: protect netns ID lookups with RCU") to LTS

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 02:22:32PM +0000, Haakon Bugge wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 9 Sep 2021, at 15:30, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 01:10:05PM +0000, Haakon Bugge wrote:
> >> Hi Greg & Sasha,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> tl;dr: Please add 2dce224f469f ("netns: protect netns ID lookups with
> >> RCU") to the stable releases from v5.4 and older. It fixes a
> >> spin_unlock_bh() in peernet2id() called with IRQs off. I think this
> >> neat side-effect of commit 2dce224f469f was quite un-intentional,
> >> hence no Fixes: tag or CC: stable.
> > 
> > Please provide a working backport for all of the relevant kernel
> > verisons, as it does not apply cleanly on it's own.
> 
> I've done the backports. 4.9 is actually not needed, because it uses spin_{lock,unlock}_irqsave() in peernet2id(). Hence, we have an "offending" commit which this one fixes:
> 
> fba143c66abb ("netns: avoid disabling irq for netns id")
> 
> Will get'm out during the weekend.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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