From: "Malte Schröder" <maltesch@gmx.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:16:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120211619.11535a95@highlander.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de>
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +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.
Now that you mention it, this happened to me too this morning. My
system stops the ppp interface (pppoe) and starts it again (my provider
shuts down the link every 24 hours, I want that to happen during the
night, so I do a ifdown ppp0).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 20:16 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
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 [this message]
2008-01-20 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-21 0:07 ` David Miller
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