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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Chung-Chi Lo" <linolo@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [BRIDGE] warning message when add an interface to bridge
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:56:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205225600.1feacfca@shemminger-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f696b20712041844h7c049b71reda92edd7b8cb16e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:44:17 +0800
"Chung-Chi Lo" <linolo@gmail.com> wrote:

> My kernel is Linxu 2.6.22.1. SYSFS is off.
> When adding an interface to bridge, console will show WARNING message.
> If turn SYSFS to on, then the WARNING message is gone.
> Any suggestion how to debug this problem? Thanks.
> 
> # ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
> eth0: starting interface.
> # brctl addbr br0
> # brctl addif br0 eth0
> WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()
> Call Trace:
> [<80027844>] dump_stack+0x8/0x38
> [<8011f348>] kref_get+0xdc/0xe4
> [<8011ee20>] kobject_get+0x20/0x34
> [<8011e910>] kobject_shadow_add+0x5c/0x170
> [<8011ea34>] kobject_add+0x10/0x20
> [<8020aac0>] br_add_if+0xb4/0x1b4
> [<8020b354>] add_del_if+0x5c/0x118
> [<8020bcc4>] br_dev_ioctl+0x6c/0x88
> [<80182edc>] dev_ifsioc+0x334/0x3c0
> [<80183184>] dev_ioctl+0x21c/0x2ec
> [<8016f76c>] sock_ioctl+0x130/0x2e4
> [<800b3b2c>] do_ioctl+0x6c/0x84
> [<800b3d40>] vfs_ioctl+0x80/0x248
> [<800b3f58>] sys_ioctl+0x50/0x98
> [<8002a8a8>] stack_done+0x20/0x3c
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This is an an artifact of the kobject_shadow code which was reverted in later kernels.
It is gone in 2.6.23

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-05  2:44 [BRIDGE] warning message when add an interface to bridge Chung-Chi Lo
2007-12-06  3:56 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-12-06  6:00   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-06 12:18     ` Chung-Chi Lo

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