From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [MACVLAN]: Fix memleak on device removal/crash on module removal
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 08:27:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48231BD9.5090200@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508.011405.223859547.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:03:19 -0700
>
>
>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> commit 2fe876e51d1f053b55d8d50c3733b136b6add016
>>> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
>>> Date: Wed May 7 09:43:05 2008 +0200
>>>
>>> [MACVLAN]: Fix memleak on device removal/crash on module removal
>>>
>> Thanks. I just tested this on 2.6.23 and it seems to fix the crash.
>>
>
> I've applied this to net-2.6, and will queue it up for net-2.6
> as well.
>
> Thanks again!
>
This might be worth adding to any/all 2.6.23+ stable series since it's a
reliable kernel crash on module unload.
I'm not sure if anyone else is really using mac-vlans much yet though...
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 7:43 [MACVLAN]: Fix memleak on device removal/crash on module removal Patrick McHardy
2008-05-07 22:03 ` Ben Greear
2008-05-07 22:45 ` David Miller
2008-05-08 8:14 ` David Miller
2008-05-08 15:27 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2008-05-08 15:34 ` Patrick McHardy
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