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From: <Joe.Ghalam@dell.com>
To: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>, <Clifford.Wichmann@dell.com>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: macvlan: Fix device ref leak when purging bc_queue
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:01:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493046084156.78287@Dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170424075606.GA19926@gondor.apana.org.au>

> The only thing that can stop macvlan_process_broadcast from getting
> called is macvlan_port_destroy.  Nothing else can stop the work
> queue, unless of course the work queue mechanism itself is broken.

> So if you're sure macvlan_port_destroy is never even called in
> your case, then you'll need to start debugging the kernel work
> queue mechanism to see why macvlan_process_broadcast is not getting
> called.

I will get your changes reloaded and re-tested without any other debug tools. Hopefully, we'll see success. I will let you know if I see any issues. 
Btw, is your fix committed already? if not, do you know when and where it would be committed?

Thanks,
Joe
 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1492618528011.11322@Dell.com>
2017-04-20 12:55 ` macvlan: Fix device ref leak when purging bc_queue Herbert Xu
2017-04-20 16:09   ` Joe.Ghalam
2017-04-21  4:40     ` Herbert Xu
2017-04-21 14:40       ` Joe.Ghalam
2017-04-21 15:02         ` David Miller
2017-04-21 19:23         ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2017-04-21 20:37           ` Joe.Ghalam
2017-04-24  7:56         ` Herbert Xu
2017-04-24 15:01           ` Joe.Ghalam [this message]
2017-04-24 15:10             ` David Miller
2017-04-24 15:30               ` Joe.Ghalam
2017-04-25 14:42   ` David Miller
2017-04-25 15:19     ` Joe.Ghalam

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