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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:40:03 -0800 From: Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com> To: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>, amuller@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix net exit. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com> wrote: > Open vSwitch allows moving internal vport to different namespace > while still connected to the bridge. But when namespace deleted > OVS does not detach these vports, that results in dangling > pointer to netdevice which causes kernel panic as follows. > This issue is fixed by detaching all ovs ports from the deleted > namespace at net-exit. > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 > IP: [<ffffffffa0aadaa5>] ovs_vport_locate+0x35/0x80 [openvswitch] > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > Call Trace: > [<ffffffffa0aa6391>] lookup_vport+0x21/0xd0 [openvswitch] > [<ffffffffa0aa65f9>] ovs_vport_cmd_get+0x59/0xf0 [openvswitch] > [<ffffffff8167e07c>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x1bc/0x3e0 > [<ffffffff8167e319>] genl_rcv_msg+0x79/0xc0 > [<ffffffff8167d919>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xb9/0xe0 > [<ffffffff8167deac>] genl_rcv+0x2c/0x40 > [<ffffffff8167cffd>] netlink_unicast+0x12d/0x1c0 > [<ffffffff8167d3da>] netlink_sendmsg+0x34a/0x6b0 > [<ffffffff8162e140>] sock_sendmsg+0xa0/0xe0 > [<ffffffff8162e5e8>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x408/0x420 > [<ffffffff8162f541>] __sys_sendmsg+0x51/0x90 > [<ffffffff8162f592>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20 > [<ffffffff81764ee9>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 > > Reported-by: Assaf Muller <amuller@...hat.com> > Fixes: 46df7b81454("openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.") > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com> Would a similar issue exist for veth type of device? After cleaning up the vports, would user space still make reference to ports? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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