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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:05:15 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:41:20 -0700

> The veth driver will oops if sysfs hooks are open while module is removed.
> 
> The net device destructor can not point to code in a module; basically
> there are only two possible safe values: NULL - no destructor, or
> free_netdev - free on last use

Applied.

Please provide a proper signoff next time.

Thanks!