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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:07:58 -0800 (PST)
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0100

> 
> My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endless 
> (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of 
> 
> unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> ppp-device was an active PPPoE device.
> 
> No more information currently.

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