From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:04:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100709235744.GA12752@kroah.com> <20100710101540.2799c9ef@xenia.leun.net> <20100710140800.GA20424@kroah.com> <20100710165208.59272ae6@xenia.leun.net> <20100710235323.5336f627@xenia.leun.net> <20100711192939.1c25dcaf@xenia.leun.net> <20100804153543.56f6ecad@xenia.leun.net> <20100804214618.GA6289@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Leun , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100804214618.GA6289@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Wed\, 4 Aug 2010 14\:46\:18 -0700") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:35:43PM +0200, Michael Leun wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:29:39 +0200 >> Michael Leun wrote: >> >> [...] >> > Jul 10 20:02:36 doris kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to >> > become free. Usage count = 3 [repeated] Does this repeat indefinitely, or are there only a couple of repetitions? If this repeats indefinitely every 5 seconds or so we have a serious bug. Otherwise we just have cleanup taking longer than it should, which isn't ideal but it is much less severe. >> > Now one might say it is fault of openvpn (used OpenVPN 2.1_rc20 >> > i586-suse-linux - the one in openSuSE 11.2 package), openvpn didn't >> > close some ressource and ssh does fine. >> > >> > But: should'nt kernel clean up after process when it exits? >> > And/or: Should'nt kernel clean up if last process in network namespace >> > exits - there is nothing left which might use that interface?! >> > >> > Greg KH wrote: >> > >> > > Yes, you are correct. Care to resend all of this to the >> > > network-namespace developer(s) and the netdev mailing list so that >> > > the correct people are notified so they can fix it all? >> > >> > [X] done - hopefully, cannot find a particular network namespace >> > developer in MAINTAINERS or source files. If such a one exists, please >> > forward. >> >> Did'nt work. Got no reaction from network mailinglist at all and bug >> still is in 2.6.35. > > Eric, here's a bug with the network namespace stuff, care to work on > resolving it? Greg thanks for forwarding this in my direction. Eric