Happy Holidays! After some more investigation I've changed the patch to what I think is a more appropriate fix, though it will only fix cases where the container hang is due to a TCP kernel socket hanging while trying to close itself (waiting for FIN close sequence, which will never complete since the container interfaces are shut down). I also added some kernel-owned socket debug so in case of another 'waiting for lo to become free' hang it will print out all open kernel sockets along with their family, state, and creating function, which hopefully will help debug more, assuming my TCP patch doesn't cover all cases. The same ppa has been updated with the new patches: https://launchpad.net/~ddstreet/+archive/ubuntu/lp1711407 And if you would like to see the patches they're in my lp git repo: https://code.launchpad.net/~ddstreet/+git/linux/+ref/lp1711407-tcp-check-xenial Can those able to reproduce this bug please test with any of the kernels from that ppa? There is some debug output to let you track container net namespace lifetimes; you should see log entries like: [ 229.134701] net_alloc: created netns ffff8800b99cc980 ... [ 438.930538] net_free: freed netns ffff8800b99cc980 you can track the alloc and free of each container that way, to make sure none of them are remaining open (i.e. leaking). Note that netns addresses may be re-used, so you may see something like: [ 228.797533] net_free: freed netns ffff8800baab1880 ... [ 352.000520] net_alloc: created netns ffff8800baab1880 that's fine and not a problem. Also, if you see this line in the logs: [ 22.149194] TCP: our netns is exiting that indicates the patch to fix this problem detected the problem and closed the hanging TCP socket. If you can reproduce the issue with any of those test kernels, please post one of the socket debug output sections that look like: [ 410.258505] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1 [ 410.261385] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9662800 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261390] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9662000 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261408] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9661000 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261411] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800baeb4000 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261416] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9699680 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261420] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb3743c0 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261423] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb374780 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261426] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb374b40 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261430] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb374f00 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261433] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb3752c0 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261436] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb375680 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261439] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb375a40 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261442] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800bb375e00 family 2 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261446] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800baeb1000 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261449] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800baeb2800 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261452] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f18000 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261456] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f18480 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261459] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f18900 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261462] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f18d80 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261465] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f19200 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261469] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f19680 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261472] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f19b00 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261475] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800b9f19f80 family 10 state 7 creator inet_ctl_sock_create+0x35/0x80 [ 410.261478] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800baeb7000 family 16 state 7 creator __netlink_kernel_create+0x6d/0x260 [ 410.261510] netdev_wait_allrefs: waiting on sk ffff8800ba4c0000 family 2 state 4 creator generic_ip_connect+0x3a4/0x540 [cifs] the most important is likely the last line, for the socket that isn't in TCP state 7 (closed). In the above example, the last socket is in TCP state 4 (fin_wait1), and was created by the cifs driver. Also, if the new test kernel does fix the problem for you, please let me know about that as well.