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| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/net_namespace.h | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/net_namespace.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h index 6fc13d905c5..ded434b032a 100644 --- a/include/net/net_namespace.h +++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h @@ -109,11 +109,6 @@ extern struct list_head net_namespace_list; #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS extern void __put_net(struct net *net); -static inline int net_alive(struct net *net) -{ - return net && atomic_read(&net->count); -} - static inline struct net *get_net(struct net *net) { atomic_inc(&net->count); @@ -145,11 +140,6 @@ int net_eq(const struct net *net1, const struct net *net2) } #else -static inline int net_alive(struct net *net) -{ - return 1; -} - static inline struct net *get_net(struct net *net) { return net; @@ -234,6 +224,23 @@ struct pernet_operations { void (*exit)(struct net *net); }; +/* + * Use these carefully. If you implement a network device and it + * needs per network namespace operations use device pernet operations, + * otherwise use pernet subsys operations. + * + * This is critically important. Most of the network code cleanup + * runs with the assumption that dev_remove_pack has been called so no + * new packets will arrive during and after the cleanup functions have + * been called. dev_remove_pack is not per namespace so instead the + * guarantee of no more packets arriving in a network namespace is + * provided by ensuring that all network devices and all sockets have + * left the network namespace before the cleanup methods are called. + * + * For the longest time the ipv4 icmp code was registered as a pernet + * device which caused kernel oops, and panics during network + * namespace cleanup. So please don't get this wrong. + */ extern int register_pernet_subsys(struct pernet_operations *); extern void unregister_pernet_subsys(struct pernet_operations *); extern int register_pernet_gen_subsys(int *id, struct pernet_operations *); diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 72b0d26fd46..9e4afe650e7 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2267,12 +2267,6 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb) rcu_read_lock(); - /* Don't receive packets in an exiting network namespace */ - if (!net_alive(dev_net(skb->dev))) { - kfree_skb(skb); - goto out; - } - #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT if (skb->tc_verd & TC_NCLS) { skb->tc_verd = CLR_TC_NCLS(skb->tc_verd); diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index 2adb1a7d361..e3bebd36f05 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c @@ -157,9 +157,6 @@ static void cleanup_net(struct work_struct *work) struct pernet_operations *ops; struct net *net; - /* Be very certain incoming network packets will not find us */ - rcu_barrier(); - net = container_of(work, struct net, work); mutex_lock(&net_mutex); |