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* mac80211 does seem to have a netdev refcount bug
@ 2008-01-24 10:48 Michael Buesch
  2008-01-24 11:07 ` Kalle Valo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Buesch @ 2008-01-24 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-wireless; +Cc: Johannes Berg, Michael Wu, John Linville

There seems to be a netdevice refcounting (freeing) bug in mac80211.
I frequently see the "waiting for netdev to become free, refcount = 1"
message on rmmod. I don't remember the message text exactly, but I think you
know what I mean.

Is there any way I can debug this and find out who is leaking the resource?

-- 
Greetings Michael.

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* Re: mac80211 does seem to have a netdev refcount bug
  2008-01-24 10:48 mac80211 does seem to have a netdev refcount bug Michael Buesch
@ 2008-01-24 11:07 ` Kalle Valo
  2008-01-24 11:15   ` Michael Buesch
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kalle Valo @ 2008-01-24 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Buesch; +Cc: linux-wireless, Johannes Berg, Michael Wu, John Linville

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

> There seems to be a netdevice refcounting (freeing) bug in mac80211.
> I frequently see the "waiting for netdev to become free, refcount = 1"
> message on rmmod. I don't remember the message text exactly, but I think you
> know what I mean.

Most probably it's this one:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778

There was a discussion on netdev about this. Not a mac80211 bug AFAIK.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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* Re: mac80211 does seem to have a netdev refcount bug
  2008-01-24 11:07 ` Kalle Valo
@ 2008-01-24 11:15   ` Michael Buesch
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Buesch @ 2008-01-24 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kalle Valo; +Cc: linux-wireless, Johannes Berg, Michael Wu, John Linville

On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:07:07 Kalle Valo wrote:
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:
> 
> > There seems to be a netdevice refcounting (freeing) bug in mac80211.
> > I frequently see the "waiting for netdev to become free, refcount = 1"
> > message on rmmod. I don't remember the message text exactly, but I think you
> > know what I mean.
> 
> Most probably it's this one:
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778
> 
> There was a discussion on netdev about this. Not a mac80211 bug AFAIK.

Oh, yes. This might be possible. So let's see. It will soon be fixed then.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

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