net: initialize init_net earlier

[ Upstream commit 9c1be1935fb68b2413796cdc03d019b8cf35ab51 ]

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]

f8c46cb39079 ("netns: do not call pernet ops for not yet set up init_net namespace")
b5082df8019a ("net: Initialise init_net.count to 1")
734b65417b24 ("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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index bcd132d4e7bd..b340d990d77c 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
 #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>
@@ -1122,6 +1123,7 @@ 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();