From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan - device refcount bug. Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:49:01 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040809164901.105a9e95.davem@redhat.com> References: <20040803131425.503f8f45@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20040803131425.503f8f45@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:14:25 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > If you rmmod a network device that is in a vlan, the system hangs waiting > for the refcount to go to zero, because it is -1. The problem is that the > vlan notifier does an extra dev_put in NETDEV_UNREGISTER case of notifier. Applied.