Boot regression caused by kauditd

[Cong Wang]

Hi,

I don't know if anyone else already reported this, but I randomly get
the following kernel crash during boot (Fedora 18, I know it's pretty
old!!):

[   20.940715] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 0000000000000004
[   20.942122] IP: get_net+0x7/0xd
[   20.942739] PGD 0
[   20.942741]
[   20.943370] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[   20.943910] CPU: 0 PID: 56 Comm: kauditd Not tainted 4.11.0-rc7+ #499
[   20.945056] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS 1.8.2-20150714_191134- 04/01/2014
[   20.946675] task: ffff8800783f8040 task.stack: ffffc90000660000
[   20.947687] RIP: 0010:get_net+0x7/0xd
[   20.948310] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000663e98 EFLAGS: 00010202
[   20.949409] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 9dd28c6188bbd6db
[   20.951093] RDX: ffffffff8111556a RSI: 0000000057539c73 RDI: 0000000000000000
[   20.952382] RBP: ffffc90000663e98 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   20.953658] R10: ffffc90000663e20 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[   20.954946] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8800783f8040 R15: ffff8800783f8040
[   20.956144] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007d200000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[   20.957628] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   20.958672] CR2: 0000000000000004 CR3: 0000000062ea3000 CR4: 00000000000406f0
[   20.959943] Call Trace:
[   20.960380]  kauditd_thread+0x60/0x1dc
[   20.961027]  ? signal_pending_state+0x2f/0x2f
[   20.961771]  ? auditd_reset+0x5f/0x5f
[   20.962407]  kthread+0x107/0x10f
[   20.962963]  ? __list_del_entry+0x22/0x22
[   20.963657]  ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x40
[   20.964267] Code: 00 00 5b 41 5c 5d c3 31 c0 83 bf 84 00 00 00 00
55 48 89 e5 75 0c 8b 87 cc 00 00 00 2b 87 c8 00 00 00 5d c3 55 48 89
f8 48 89 e5 <f0> ff 47 04 5d c3 f0 ff 4f 04 74 01 c3 55 48 89 e5 e8 68
6b 7a
[   20.967651] RIP: get_net+0x7/0xd RSP: ffffc90000663e98
[   20.968526] CR2: 0000000000000004
[   20.969094] ---[ end trace aab4cbd6ae264eab ]---
[   20.969886] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
[   20.971312] Kernel Offset: disabled
[   20.971928] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception


I guess commit 264d509637d95f9404e introduced this because I never see
this crash before pulling net-next today, but given the fact I only
saw this once so far, I can't just revert it to verify if it is the
case... It is probably some race condition.

Please let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks!