We're seeing this on our build servers. These are VMWare virtual machines which run docker containers in privileged mode. Inside the containers are Jenkins agents and a build environment. Part of the build process uses unshare to create these namespaces: ipc uts mount pid net. If you have any questions about this arrangement, I can try to provide more detail and maybe example code.
The kernel is 4.4.0-79-generic x86_64. We are using docker 17.05.0-ce. In one case, the whole VM hung when this was encountered. Are there any workarounds for 16.04 users beyond rebooting the host? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1711407 Title: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is a "continuation" of bug 1403152, as that bug has been marked "fix released" and recent reports of failure may (or may not) be a new bug. Any further reports of the problem should please be reported here instead of that bug. -- [Impact] When shutting down and starting containers the container network namespace may experience a dst reference counting leak which results in this message repeated in the logs: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1 This can cause issues when trying to create net network namespace and thus block a user from creating new containers. [Test Case] See comment 16, reproducer provided at https://github.com/fho/docker- samba-loop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1711407/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
