[Devel] Re: [PATCHSET] 2.6.20-rc4-mm1-lxc2

[Eric W. Biederman]

Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com> writes:

>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> we are experiencing NULL address access when using the nsproxy in 
> push_net_ns function without any unshare.
>
> It appears the exit_task_namespace function sets current->nsproxy to 
> NULL and we are interrupted by an incoming packet. The netif_receive_skb 
> does push_net_ns(dev->net_ns). The push_net_ns function retrieves the 
> current->nsproxy to use it. But it was previously set to NULL by the 
> exit_task_namespace function.
>
> The bug can be reproduced with the following command launched from 
> another host.
>
> while $(true); do ssh myaddress ls > /dev/null && echo -n .; done
>
> After a time (between 1 second - 3 minutes), the kernel panics.
>
> I think this will be very hard to fix and perhaps we should redesign 
> some part. Instead of using nsproxy swapping, perhaps we should pass 
> net_ns as parameter to functions, but that will breaks a lot of API.
>
> What is your feeling on that ?

After looking at several things primarily ramifications of file descriptor
passing I have concluded that a magic global variable in the task struct
is almost certainly the wrong thing to do.  And the more I look at it
the task is usually the wrong location to look to see what network namespace
you are in.

To that effect I have been preparing a patchset for discussion targeting
the end of this week to have it ready, in an easily reviewable format.

Eric
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