--- /dev/null
+From foo@baz Mon Jan 29 10:14:57 CET 2018
+From: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
+Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:14:26 -0500
+Subject: net: tcp: close sock if net namespace is exiting
+
+From: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
+
+
+[ Upstream commit 4ee806d51176ba7b8ff1efd81f271d7252e03a1d ]
+
+When a tcp socket is closed, if it detects that its net namespace is
+exiting, close immediately and do not wait for FIN sequence.
+
+For normal sockets, a reference is taken to their net namespace, so it will
+never exit while the socket is open. However, kernel sockets do not take a
+reference to their net namespace, so it may begin exiting while the kernel
+socket is still open. In this case if the kernel socket is a tcp socket,
+it will stay open trying to complete its close sequence. The sock's dst(s)
+hold a reference to their interface, which are all transferred to the
+namespace's loopback interface when the real interfaces are taken down.
+When the namespace tries to take down its loopback interface, it hangs
+waiting for all references to the loopback interface to release, which
+results in messages like:
+
+unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1
+
+These messages continue until the socket finally times out and closes.
+Since the net namespace cleanup holds the net_mutex while calling its
+registered pernet callbacks, any new net namespace initialization is
+blocked until the current net namespace finishes exiting.
+
+After this change, the tcp socket notices the exiting net namespace, and
+closes immediately, releasing its dst(s) and their reference to the
+loopback interface, which lets the net namespace continue exiting.
+
+Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1711407
+Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811
+Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@canonical.com>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ include/net/net_namespace.h | 10 ++++++++++
+ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 +++
+ net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
+ 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
++++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
+@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ int net_eq(const struct net *net1, const
+ return net1 == net2;
+ }
+
++static inline int check_net(const struct net *net)
++{
++ return atomic_read(&net->count) != 0;
++}
++
+ void net_drop_ns(void *);
+
+ #else
+@@ -232,6 +237,11 @@ int net_eq(const struct net *net1, const
+ {
+ return 1;
+ }
++
++static inline int check_net(const struct net *net)
++{
++ return 1;
++}
+
+ #define net_drop_ns NULL
+ #endif
+--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
++++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+@@ -2176,6 +2176,9 @@ adjudge_to_death:
+ tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk),
+ LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY);
++ } else if (!check_net(sock_net(sk))) {
++ /* Not possible to send reset; just close */
++ tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_CLOSE);
+ }
+ }
+
+--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
++++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+@@ -46,11 +46,19 @@ static void tcp_write_err(struct sock *s
+ * to prevent DoS attacks. It is called when a retransmission timeout
+ * or zero probe timeout occurs on orphaned socket.
+ *
++ * Also close if our net namespace is exiting; in that case there is no
++ * hope of ever communicating again since all netns interfaces are already
++ * down (or about to be down), and we need to release our dst references,
++ * which have been moved to the netns loopback interface, so the namespace
++ * can finish exiting. This condition is only possible if we are a kernel
++ * socket, as those do not hold references to the namespace.
++ *
+ * Criteria is still not confirmed experimentally and may change.
+ * We kill the socket, if:
+ * 1. If number of orphaned sockets exceeds an administratively configured
+ * limit.
+ * 2. If we have strong memory pressure.
++ * 3. If our net namespace is exiting.
+ */
+ static int tcp_out_of_resources(struct sock *sk, bool do_reset)
+ {
+@@ -79,6 +87,13 @@ static int tcp_out_of_resources(struct s
+ NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY);
+ return 1;
+ }
++
++ if (!check_net(sock_net(sk))) {
++ /* Not possible to send reset; just close */
++ tcp_done(sk);
++ return 1;
++ }
++
+ return 0;
+ }
+