Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755556AbYATTxn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:53:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754881AbYATTxc (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:53:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:51129 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753449AbYATTxb (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:53:31 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 536 Lines: 16 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 linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/