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Message-Id: <20190129.113051.1765896152662794323.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:30:51 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jelsasser@...neta.com
Cc: josh@...asser.ca, ecree@...arflare.com, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com,
jiri@...lanox.com, petrm@...lanox.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
amritha.nambiar@...el.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
lirongqing@...du.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: set default network namespace in
init_dummy_netdev()
From: Josh Elsasser <jelsasser@...neta.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:38:33 -0800
> Assign a default net namespace to netdevs created by init_dummy_netdev().
> Fixes a NULL pointer dereference caused by busy-polling a socket bound to
> an iwlwifi wireless device, which bumps the per-net BUSYPOLLRXPACKETS stat
> if napi_poll() received packets:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000190
> IP: napi_busy_loop+0xd6/0x200
> Call Trace:
> sock_poll+0x5e/0x80
> do_sys_poll+0x324/0x5a0
> SyS_poll+0x6c/0xf0
> do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x1f0
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
>
> Fixes: 7db6b048da3b ("net: Commonize busy polling code to focus on napi_id instead of socket")
> Signed-off-by: Josh Elsasser <jelsasser@...neta.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
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