From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:09:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4793AA89.40507@fr.ibm.com> References: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Return-path: Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:60190 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755673AbYATULy (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:11:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I think this bug has been identified. [Bug 9778] New: unregister_netdevice: waiting for [device] to become free Thanks. -- Daniel