net: initialize init_net earlier

While testing a patch that will follow later
("net: add netns refcount tracker to struct nsproxy")
I found that devtmpfs_init() was called before init_net
was initialized.

This is a bug, because devtmpfs_setup() calls
ksys_unshare(CLONE_NEWNS);

This has the effect of increasing init_net refcount,
which will be later overwritten to 1, as part of setup_net(&init_net)

We had too many prior patches [1] trying to work around the root cause.

Really, make sure init_net is in BSS section, and that net_ns_init()
is called earlier at boot time.

Note that another patch ("vfs: add netns refcount tracker
to struct fs_context") also will need net_ns_init() being called
before vfs_caches_init()

As a bonus, this patch saves around 4KB in .data section.

[1]

f8c46cb390 ("netns: do not call pernet ops for not yet set up init_net namespace")
b5082df801 ("net: Initialise init_net.count to 1")
734b65417b ("net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head")

v2: fixed a build error reported by kernel build bots (CONFIG_NET=n)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2022-02-05 09:01:25 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 4acc45db71
commit 9c1be1935f
4 changed files with 14 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
#include <linux/kcsan.h>
#include <linux/init_syscalls.h>
#include <linux/stackdepot.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/bugs.h>
@@ -1116,6 +1117,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init __no_sanitize_address start_kernel(void)
key_init();
security_init();
dbg_late_init();
net_ns_init();
vfs_caches_init();
pagecache_init();
signals_init();