From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Leun Subject: Re: NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) (was Re: sysfs bug when using tun with network namespaces) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:35:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20100804153543.56f6ecad@xenia.leun.net> References: <20100709235744.GA12752@kroah.com> <20100710101540.2799c9ef@xenia.leun.net> <20100710140800.GA20424@kroah.com> <20100710165208.59272ae6@xenia.leun.net> <20100710235323.5336f627@xenia.leun.net> <20100711192939.1c25dcaf@xenia.leun.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: greg@kroah.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100711192939.1c25dcaf@xenia.leun.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:29:39 +0200 Michael Leun wrote: [...] > Jul 10 20:02:36 doris kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to > become free. Usage count = 3 [repeated] > > Now one might say it is fault of openvpn (used OpenVPN 2.1_rc20 > i586-suse-linux - the one in openSuSE 11.2 package), openvpn didn't > close some ressource and ssh does fine. > > But: should'nt kernel clean up after process when it exits? > And/or: Should'nt kernel clean up if last process in network namespace > exits - there is nothing left which might use that interface?! > > Greg KH wrote: > > > Yes, you are correct. Care to resend all of this to the > > network-namespace developer(s) and the netdev mailing list so that > > the correct people are notified so they can fix it all? > > [X] done - hopefully, cannot find a particular network namespace > developer in MAINTAINERS or source files. If such a one exists, please > forward. Did'nt work. Got no reaction from network mailinglist at all and bug still is in 2.6.35. -- MfG, Michael Leun