When NET_NS is not enabled, socket ioctl cmd SIOCGSKNS should do nothing but acknowledge userspace it is not supported. Otherwise, kernel would panic wherever nsfs trys to access ns->ops since the proc_ns_operations is not implemented in this case.
[7.670023] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010 [7.670268] pgd = 32b54000 [7.670544] [00000010] *pgd=00000000 [7.671861] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM [7.672315] Modules linked in: [7.672918] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.13.0-rc3-00375-g6799d4f2da49 #16 [7.673309] Hardware name: Generic DT based system [7.673642] PC is at nsfs_evict+0x24/0x30 [7.674486] LR is at clear_inode+0x20/0x9c
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9 --- net/socket.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 27e3e7d53f8e..644b46112d35 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1149,11 +1149,15 @@ static long sock_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg) mutex_unlock(&vlan_ioctl_mutex); break; case SIOCGSKNS: +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS err = -EPERM; if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) break;
err = open_related_ns(&net->ns, get_net_ns); +#else + err = -ENOTSUPP; +#endif break; case SIOCGSTAMP_OLD: case SIOCGSTAMPNS_OLD: