Re: RFC Hanging clean-up of a namespace

Hans Schillstrom [off-list ref] writes:

On Friday 20 January 2012 11:08:37 Eric W. Biederman wrote:

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Hans Schillstrom [off-list ref] writes:

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On Thursday 19 January 2012 22:40:53 Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:

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* Eric W. Biederman | 2012-01-19 13:24:13 [-0800]:

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This thread is a fascinating disconnect from reality all of the way
around.

- inet_twsk_purge already implements throwing out of timewait sockets
 when a network namespaces is being cleaned up.  So the RFC is nonsense.

This is how it is implemented, not how it should be. TIME_WAIT is not the
problem, it is there to keep the stack from sending wrong RST messages. Maybe
the 2*MSL could be fixed by a more accurate 2*RTT.

I was only refering to my printk's i.e. the last sockets leaving the namespace was
from tcp_timer() with state 7, 2 minutes after free_nsproxy() was called.
(and assumed that was the time_wait)

Which kernel are you running?  

 3.2.0 

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I can't find a mention of a function
named tcp_timer() anywhere in the kernel since 2.6.16 when the kernel
was put into git.

Sorry, it was tcp_write_timer() in tcp_timer.c

Now that is different.  It sounds like your socket is flushing pending
writes that haven't made it to the network and is having trouble.   I
can't imagine an argument for not writing everything in the socket
buffers to the network if at all possible.

We had a number of procs. with tcp connections open, and kill proc 1 (lxc-init)
i.e. all procs. in the ns got killed within a few ms. 
(or at least no visible traces left)

My current hypothesis is that the namespace actually didn't get freed
until the tcp socket finished closing.  You can check by looking at when
__put_net and then cleanup_net are called.

We started with 2.6.32 but the cleanup process didn't work we always end up
with ref-counts on loopback

Yeah a bunch of references get transfered to the loopback device so any
reference count buglets in the ip stack show up that way.

I have been wondering if there is a good way to guarantee network
device ref counts are balanced.  Because those problems are a royal pain
to track down.

Eric