From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jay Manni <JManni@FireEye.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: unregister_netdevice with negative refcnt error while using NFQUEUE with ebtables mark
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:16:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46093551.2060906@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74ECB30468A30A4DA2BD88DA5387CAE3508835@fempexch.FireEye.com>
Jay Manni wrote:
> I am using iptables to queue packets to an NFQUEUE from a tap interface (attached to a VM). It works fine, except that I get an unregister_netdevice error with a negative refcnt, while freeing the tap devices.
>
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for tap3 to become free. Usage count = -50
>
> I noticed some posts about the negative refcnt issue but that was related to appletalk.
> Anybody know whats happening here?
Something very broken obviously, the reference count should never
drop below zero. What kernel version are you running, and what
are you using as queuing backend (ip_queue, nfnetlink_queue)?
Can you also reproduce the problem without queueing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-26 5:25 unregister_netdevice with negative refcnt error while using NFQUEUE with ebtables mark Jay Manni
2007-03-27 15:16 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-03-28 8:42 ` Jay Manni
2007-03-28 9:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-03-28 23:34 ` Jay Manni
2007-03-29 11:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-03-29 23:19 ` Jay Manni
2007-03-30 13:21 ` Patrick McHardy
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