linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] caif: Fix crash due to uninitialized net name-space.

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:13:52 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	davej@...hat.com, sjurbren@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] caif: Fix crash due to uninitialized net name-space.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Sjur Brændeland
<sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com> wrote:
> net_generic() calls BUG_ON() if called with uninitialized
> network name-space. Add check if net is initialized before
> calling net_generic(). This fixes the following oops:
>
> [  200.752016] kernel BUG at include/net/netns/generic.h:40!
> ...
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff825c3cea>] ? get_cfcnfg+0x3a/0x180
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821cf0b0>] ? lockdep_rtnl_is_held+0x10/0x20
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff825c41be>] caif_device_notify+0x2e/0x530
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff810d61b7>] notifier_call_chain+0x67/0x110
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff810d67c1>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821bae82>] call_netdevice_notifiers+0x32/0x60
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821c2b26>] register_netdevice+0x196/0x300
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821c2ca9>] register_netdev+0x19/0x30
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff81c1c67a>] loopback_net_init+0x4a/0xa0
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821b5e62>] ops_init+0x42/0x180
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821b600b>] setup_net+0x6b/0x100
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff821b6466>] copy_net_ns+0x86/0x110
> [  200.752016]  [<ffffffff810d5789>] create_new_namespaces+0xd9/0x190
>
> Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>
> ---
>
> Hi Sasha,
>
> Do you have any chance to review and test this patch?
> I'd like to get the net namespace handling this right this time ...
>
> Thanks,
> Sjur

Works for me.

Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
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