Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 21:45:59 +1100
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mirko.parthey@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@oss.sgi.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, shemminger@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:46:43PM +1100, herbert wrote:
> 
> This doesn't work because net/core/dst.c can only search based
> on dst->dev.  For the split device case, dst->dev is set to
> loopback_dev while rt6i_idev is set to the real device.

Although I still think this is a bug, I'm now starting to suspect
that there is another bug around as well.

There is probably an ifp leak which in turn leads to a split dst
leak that allows the first bug to make its mark.
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