From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: ak@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:08:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120.160833.166998420.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080120200109.GA31876@elte.hu>
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:01:09 +0100
>
> * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> i've seen such problems (locked up box with endless loop of usage count
> == 1) with pppoe in the past, and it seemed to be related to dynamic
> IPs. (i saw that well before 2.6.24 - reported it once to davem)
No, this is a different bug Andi is seeing and it was
recently introduced:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-21 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 19:53 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 20:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-20 20:58 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 0:08 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-01-21 0:33 ` nigel
2008-01-20 20:09 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-20 20:14 ` Frans Pop
2008-01-20 20:16 ` Malte Schröder
2008-01-20 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-21 0:07 ` David Miller
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