From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pshelar@nicira.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] vxlan: Fix kernel crash on rmmod.
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:46:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130711.114617.1413498443504266635.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373567886-28494-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com>
From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:38:06 -0700
> vxlan exit module unregisters vxlan net and then it unregisters
> rtnl ops which triggers vxlan_dellink() from __rtnl_kill_links().
> vxlan_dellink() deletes vxlan-dev from vxlan_list which has
> list-head in vxlan-net-struct but that is already gone due to
> net-unregister. That is how we are getting following crash.
>
> Following commit fixes the crash by fixing module exit path.
...
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Applied, thanks for fixing the commit message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-11 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-11 18:38 [PATCH net-next v2] vxlan: Fix kernel crash on rmmod Pravin B Shelar
2013-07-11 18:46 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-07-16 23:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-07-17 6:03 ` David Miller
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