From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: dlstevens@us.ibm.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix outstanding ref's preventing ether driver unload
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:38:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223143832.5fe65329.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031223142931.703d5c88.shemminger@osdl.org>
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:29:31 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> Patch against 2.6.0 to fix the problem of being unable to load the
> ethernet driver because of reference's still being held. The
> problem reference's are from IPV6 network discovery packets that get
> captured by the af_packet protocol and queued onto a socket queue
> (which may never drain). The route dst entries in the skbuff get
> clone'd and won't be freed until the socket read.
Are you going to add such code to RAW, UDP, TCP, etc. etc.?
I understand the problem, but the point I'm making here is that
I see nothing which makes it specific to AF_PACKET.
This brings us back to an old and sore topic, which is the
dst_dev_event() code in net/core/dst.c, have you had a look
at that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-12-23 22:29 ` [PATCH] fix outstanding ref's preventing ether driver unload Stephen Hemminger
2003-12-23 22:38 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-12-23 23:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-12-23 23:25 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-25 3:14 ` David S. Miller
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