The problem also occurs with the mainline v3.15-rc2-trusty build: [17345307.967478] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90003777a70 [17345307.967497] IP: [] nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack+0x46/0x70 [nf_nat] [17345307.967510] PGD 1b6425067 PUD 1b6426067 PMD 1b0aed067 PTE 0 [17345307.967519] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [17345307.967525] Modules linked in: xt_nat veth tcp_diag inet_diag xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat bridge stp llc xt_owner isofs ipt_REJECT xt_LOG xt_limit nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables dm_crypt microcode raid10 raid456 async_memcpy async_raid6_recov async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq raid1 raid0 multipath linear [17345307.967578] CPU: 0 PID: 6 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 3.15.0-031500rc2-generic #201404201435 [17345307.967591] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [17345307.967596] task: ffff8801b39d0000 ti: ffff8801b39cc000 task.ti: ffff8801b39cc000 [17345307.967601] RIP: e030:[] [] nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack+0x46/0x70 [nf_nat] [17345307.967611] RSP: e02b:ffff8801b39cdc48 EFLAGS: 00010246 [17345307.967617] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8801b1cf7b10 RCX: ffff880003110000 [17345307.967624] RDX: ffffc90003777a70 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: ffffffffa01434e0 [17345307.967630] RBP: ffff8801b39cdc58 R08: 0000000058690aeb R09: 00000000e834b0f3 [17345307.967636] R10: ffff880003110070 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff8801b1cf7a80 [17345307.967643] R13: ffff880003110000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [17345307.967655] FS: 00007fd6682cc740(0000) GS:ffff8801bec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [17345307.967662] CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [17345307.967667] CR2: ffffc90003777a70 CR3: 00000000058f9000 CR4: 0000000000002660 [17345307.967673] Stack: [17345307.967677] ffffffff8176ce52 0000000000000001 ffff8801b39cdc88 ffffffffa00d1013 [17345307.967686] 0000000000000000 ffff880003110000 ffff8800ca7b8000 ffffffffa00e5140 [17345307.967694] ffff8801b39cdca8 ffffffffa00c867e ffff880003110000 ffff8800ca7b8000 [17345307.967703] Call Trace: [17345307.967712] [] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x12/0x50 [17345307.967726] [] __nf_ct_ext_destroy+0x43/0x60 [nf_conntrack] [17345307.967736] [] nf_conntrack_free+0x2e/0x70 [nf_conntrack] [17345307.967746] [] destroy_conntrack+0x9e/0xf0 [nf_conntrack] [17345307.967756] [] ? nf_conntrack_helper_fini+0x30/0x30 [nf_conntrack] [17345307.967766] [] nf_conntrack_destroy+0x17/0x20 [17345307.967775] [] nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x78/0xb0 [nf_conntrack] [17345307.967786] [] nf_ct_l3proto_pernet_unregister+0x1d/0x20 [nf_conntrack] [17345307.967796] [] ipv4_net_exit+0x1d/0x60 [nf_conntrack_ipv4] [17345307.967804] [] ops_exit_list.isra.1+0x38/0x60 [17345307.967811] [] cleanup_net+0x112/0x230 [17345307.967820] [] process_one_work+0x17f/0x4c0 [17345307.967827] [] worker_thread+0x11b/0x3d0 [17345307.967833] [] ? manage_workers.isra.21+0x190/0x190 [17345307.967841] [] kthread+0xc9/0xe0 [17345307.967846] [] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0 [17345307.967854] [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [17345307.967860] [] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0 [17345307.967865] Code: b7 58 12 66 85 db 74 46 0f b7 db 48 01 c3 48 83 7b 10 00 74 39 48 c7 c7 e0 34 14 a0 e8 14 db 62 e1 48 8b 03 48 8b 53 08 48 85 c0 <48> 89 02 74 04 48 89 50 08 48 ba 00 02 20 00 00 00 ad de 48 c7 [17345307.967917] RIP [] nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack+0x46/0x70 [nf_nat] [17345307.967925] RSP [17345307.967928] CR2: ffffc90003777a70 [17345307.967933] ---[ end trace 84d4f3185a40459f ]--- [17345307.967938] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt