From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:01:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120200109.GA31876@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de>
* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an
> endless (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of
>
> unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count
> = 1
>
> ppp-device was an active PPPoE device.
>
> No more information currently.
i've seen such problems (locked up box with endless loop of usage count
== 1) with pppoe in the past, and it seemed to be related to dynamic
IPs. (i saw that well before 2.6.24 - reported it once to davem)
It seems to have stopped when i stopped using ipsec and started using
vpnc. (but no firm info - this was sporadic - happened every few months
or so) Are you using ipsec and dynamic IPs by any chance?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 19:53 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 20:01 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-20 20:58 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 0:08 ` David Miller
2008-01-21 0:33 ` nigel
2008-01-20 20:09 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-20 20:14 ` Frans Pop
2008-01-20 20:16 ` Malte Schröder
2008-01-20 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-21 0:07 ` David Miller
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