Running perf in one window to capture tcp_retransmit_skb tracepoint:
    $ perf record -e tcp:tcp_retransmit_skb -a
And causing a retransmission on an active TCP session (e.g., dropping
packets in the receiver, changing MTU on the interface to 500 and back
to 1500) triggers a panic:
[   58.543144] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
0000000000000008
[   58.545300] IP: perf_trace_tcp_retransmit_skb+0xd0/0x145
[   58.546770] PGD 0 P4D 0
[   58.547472] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   58.548328] Modules linked in: vrf
[   58.549262] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc4+ #26
[   58.551004] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[   58.554560] task: 
ffffffff81a0e540 task.stack: 
ffffffff81a00000
[   58.555817] RIP: 0010:perf_trace_tcp_retransmit_skb+0xd0/0x145
[   58.557137] RSP: 0018:
ffff88003fc03d68 EFLAGS: 
00010282
[   58.558292] RAX: 
0000000000000000 RBX: 
ffffe8ffffc0ec80 RCX: 
ffff880038543098
[   58.559850] RDX: 
0400000000000000 RSI: 
ffff88003fc03d70 RDI: 
ffff88003fc14b68
[   58.561099] RBP: 
ffff88003fc03da8 R08: 
0000000000000000 R09: 
ffffea0000d3224a
[   58.562005] R10: 
ffff88003fc03db8 R11: 
0000000000000010 R12: 
ffff8800385428c0
[   58.562930] R13: 
ffffe8ffffc0e478 R14: 
ffffffff81a93a40 R15: 
ffff88003d4f0c00
[   58.563845] FS:  
0000000000000000(0000) GS:
ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
[   58.564873] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 
0000000080050033
[   58.565613] CR2: 
0000000000000008 CR3: 
000000003d68f004 CR4: 
00000000000606f0
[   58.566538] Call Trace:
[   58.566865]  <IRQ>
[   58.567140]  __tcp_retransmit_skb+0x4ab/0x4c6
[   58.567704]  ? tcp_set_ca_state+0x22/0x3f
[   58.568231]  tcp_retransmit_skb+0x14/0xa3
[   58.568754]  tcp_retransmit_timer+0x472/0x5e3
[   58.569324]  ? tcp_write_timer_handler+0x1e9/0x1e9
[   58.569946]  tcp_write_timer_handler+0x95/0x1e9
[   58.570548]  tcp_write_timer+0x2a/0x58
Check that daddr_cache is non-NULL before de-referencing.
Fixes: e086101b150a ("tcp: add a tracepoint for tcp retransmission")
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
        ),
 
        TP_fast_assign(
-               struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
                struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
                struct in6_addr *pin6;
                __be32 *p32;
                p32 = (__be32 *) __entry->daddr;
                *p32 =  inet->inet_daddr;
 
-               if (np) {
+               /* IPv6 socket ? */
+               if (inet6_sk(sk)) {
                        pin6 = (struct in6_addr *)__entry->saddr_v6;
-                       *pin6 = np->saddr;
+                       *pin6 = sk->sk_v6_rcv_saddr;
                        pin6 = (struct in6_addr *)__entry->daddr_v6;
-                       *pin6 = *(np->daddr_cache);
+                       *pin6 = sk->sk_v6_daddr;
                } else {
                        pin6 = (struct in6_addr *)__entry->saddr_v6;
                        ipv6_addr_set_v4mapped(inet->inet_saddr, pin6);