From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan - device refcount bug.
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:49:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809164920.54f68bc2.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410FF740.5060903@candelatech.com>
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:36:16 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > If you rmmod a network device that is in a vlan, the system hangs waiting
> > for the refcount to go to zero, because it is -1. The problem is that the
> > vlan notifier does an extra dev_put in NETDEV_UNREGISTER case of notifier.
>
> Good catch. It would seem to me that it would be good to have a
> BUG() or similar to catch any instance of the reference count going
> negative.
I'd likely accept such a patch. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-03 20:14 [PATCH 2.6] vlan - device refcount bug Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 20:36 ` Ben Greear
2004-08-09 23:49 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-09 23:49 ` David S. Miller
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