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[ Upstream commit 4ee806d51176ba7b8ff1efd81f271d7252e03a1d ] When a tcp socket is closed, if it detects that its net namespace is exiting, close immediately and do not wait for FIN sequence. For normal sockets, a reference is taken to their net namespace, so it will never exit while the socket is open. However, kernel sockets do not take a reference to their net namespace, so it may begin exiting while the kernel socket is still open. In this case if the kernel socket is a tcp socket, it will stay open trying to complete its close sequence. The sock's dst(s) hold a reference to their interface, which are all transferred to the namespace's loopback interface when the real interfaces are taken down. When the namespace tries to take down its loopback interface, it hangs waiting for all references to the loopback interface to release, which results in messages like: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1 These messages continue until the socket finally times out and closes. Since the net namespace cleanup holds the net_mutex while calling its registered pernet callbacks, any new net namespace initialization is blocked until the current net namespace finishes exiting. After this change, the tcp socket notices the exiting net namespace, and closes immediately, releasing its dst(s) and their reference to the loopback interface, which lets the net namespace continue exiting. Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1711407 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811 Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.