netns: add and use net_ns_barrier

Quoting Joe Stringer:
  If a user loads nf_conntrack_ftp, sends FTP traffic through a network
  namespace, destroys that namespace then unloads the FTP helper module,
  then the kernel will crash.

Events that lead to the crash:
1. conntrack is created with ftp helper in netns x
2. This netns is destroyed
3. netns destruction is scheduled
4. netns destruction wq starts, removes netns from global list
5. ftp helper is unloaded, which resets all helpers of the conntracks
via for_each_net()

but because netns is already gone from list the for_each_net() loop
doesn't include it, therefore all of these conntracks are unaffected.

6. helper module unload finishes
7. netns wq invokes destructor for rmmod'ed helper

CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reported-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index 1934efd4a9d4..1f15abb1d733 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -482,6 +482,23 @@ static void cleanup_net(struct work_struct *work)
 		net_drop_ns(net);
 	}
 }
+
+/**
+ * net_ns_barrier - wait until concurrent net_cleanup_work is done
+ *
+ * cleanup_net runs from work queue and will first remove namespaces
+ * from the global list, then run net exit functions.
+ *
+ * Call this in module exit path to make sure that all netns
+ * ->exit ops have been invoked before the function is removed.
+ */
+void net_ns_barrier(void)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&net_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&net_mutex);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_ns_barrier);
+
 static DECLARE_WORK(net_cleanup_work, cleanup_net);
 
 void __put_net(struct net *net)