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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:09:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4793AA89.40507@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endless 
> (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of 
> 
> unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> ppp-device was an active PPPoE device.
> 
> No more information currently.
> 
> -Andi
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I think this bug has been identified.

[Bug 9778] New: unregister_netdevice: waiting for [device] to become free

Thanks.
   -- Daniel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-20 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-20 19:53 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 20:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-20 20:58   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21  0:08   ` David Miller
2008-01-21  0:33   ` nigel
2008-01-20 20:09 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2008-01-20 20:14 ` Frans Pop
2008-01-20 20:16 ` Malte Schröder
2008-01-20 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-21  0:07 ` David Miller

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