From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix ipv6 neighbour unregister_sysctl_table warning
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:55:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110131.205505.183064142.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11v3utagp.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:15:02 -0800
>
> In my testing of 2.6.37 I was occassionally getting a warning about
> sysctl table entries being unregistered in the wrong order. Digging
> in it turns out this dates back to the last great sysctl reorg done
> where Al Viro introduced the requirement that sysctl directories
> needed to be created before and destroyed after the files in them.
>
> It turns out that in that great reorg /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh was
> overlooked. So this patch fixes that oversight and makes an annoying
> warning message go away.
>
>>------------[ cut here ]------------
>>WARNING: at kernel/sysctl.c:1992 unregister_sysctl_table+0x134/0x164()
>>Pid: 23951, comm: kworker/u:3 Not tainted 2.6.37-350888.2010AroraKernelBeta.fc14.x86_64 #1
>>Call Trace:
...
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Applied and queued for -stable, thanks a lot Eric.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-30 20:15 [PATCH] net: Fix ipv6 neighbour unregister_sysctl_table warning Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-01 4:55 ` David Miller [this message]
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