From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Malte =?UTF-8?B?U2NocsO2ZGVy?= Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:16:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20080120211619.11535a95@highlander.home.lan> References: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: >=20 > My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endle= ss=20 > (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of=20 >=20 > unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count =3D= 1 >=20 > ppp-device was an active PPPoE device. >=20 > 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). --=20 --------------------------------------- Malte Schr=C3=B6der MalteSch@gmx.de ICQ# 68121508 --------------------------------------- --Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHk6wW4q3E2oMjYtURAibFAJ9nbk8VJfK626vw3LuH/J3SxiBqGACgqkDt XC9CmrOpuhZhSwRlobcfs+U= =Ngof -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja--