Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756501AbYAUAIH (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:08:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754784AbYAUAHy (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:07:54 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54340 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754671AbYAUAHx (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:07:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:07:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080120.160758.160048986.davem@davemloft.net> To: ak@suse.de Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> References: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 19 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0100 > > 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. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778 -- 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/