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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free.
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Robert Scott <rbscott@axentra.net>, bridge@lists.osdl.org

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Two other recent reports are:
> 1. Buggy applications that hold packets in their input queue forever,
>    and/or netfilters.  The socket buffer's contain a reference for
>    packets in flight.

skb->dev doesn't take a reference and is reset before packets are queued
to sockets. dst->dev however does hold a reference and is not reset,
perhaps we should change that.