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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_release
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:51:44 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:09:32 +0800

> From: Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com>
> 
> When PPPOE is running over a virtual ethernet interface (e.g., a
> bonding interface) and the user tries to delete the interface in case
> the PPPOE state is ZOMBIE, the kernel will loop forever while
> unregistering net_device for the reference count is not decreased to
> zero which should have been done with dev_put().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.