From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [MACVLAN]: Fix memleak on device removal/crash on module removal
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:34:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48231D6A.9020902@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48231BD9.5090200@candelatech.com>
Ben Greear wrote:
>>>> [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 don't think there is anyone maintaining the stable kernels
before stable-2.6.25 (for which I think Dave already queued
it up, above appears to be a typo).
> I'm not sure if anyone else is really using mac-vlans much yet though...
I know of a few users, but not too many I guess. The fix
is obvious though so it doesn't hurt for -stable in any
case.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 15:34 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
2008-05-08 15:34 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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