Andrei reports the following kmemleak error: unreferenced object 0xffff91badb543950 (size 2096): comm "kworker/u4:0", pid 6, jiffies 4295152553 (age 28.418s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cb 5f df ba 91 ff ff .........._..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffffb1865bea>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffffb1243b38>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x128/0x280 [<ffffffffb142f5ab>] idr_layer_alloc+0x2b/0x90 [<ffffffffb142f9cd>] idr_get_empty_slot+0x34d/0x370 [<ffffffffb142fa4e>] idr_alloc+0x5e/0x110 [<ffffffffb170ac3d>] __peernet2id_alloc+0x6d/0x90 [<ffffffffb170bda5>] peernet2id_alloc+0x55/0xb0 [<ffffffffb1731216>] rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0xaa6/0x10a0 [<ffffffffb1733073>] rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x73/0xd0 [<ffffffffb17125d5>] rollback_registered_many+0x295/0x390 [<ffffffffb1712765>] unregister_netdevice_many+0x25/0x80 [<ffffffffb17138a5>] default_device_exit_batch+0x145/0x170 [<ffffffffb170ae52>] ops_exit_list.isra.4+0x52/0x60 [<ffffffffb170c17f>] cleanup_net+0x1bf/0x2a0 [<ffffffffb10b616f>] process_one_work+0x1ff/0x660 [<ffffffffb10b661e>] worker_thread+0x4e/0x480
There is no reason to try to allocate an nsid for a netns which is dying. Fixes: 0c7aecd4bde4 ("netns: add rtnl cmd to add and get peer netns ids") Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <ava...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> --- v2: fix compilation add the 'Fixes' tag. Andrei, can you test this new version? Regards, Nicolas net/core/net_namespace.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index f61c0e02a413..63f65387f4e1 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c @@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ static int alloc_netid(struct net *net, struct net *peer, int reqid) max = reqid + 1; } + if (!atomic_read(&net->count) || !atomic_read(&peer->count)) + return -EINVAL; + return idr_alloc(&net->netns_ids, peer, min, max, GFP_ATOMIC); } -- 2.8.1