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From: Michael Barkowski <michaelbarkowski@ruggedcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WAN: flush tx_queue in hdlc_ppp to prevent panic on rmmod
 hw_driver.
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:17:13 -0400
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Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> tx_queue is used as a temporary queue when not allowed to queue skb
> directly to the hw device driver (which may sleep). Most paths flush
> it before returning, but ppp_start() currently cannot. Make sure we
> don't leave skbs pointing to a non-existent device.
> 
> Thanks to Michael Barkowski for reporting this problem.

Great - thanks.  Will this be going into -stable?

-- 
Michael Barkowski