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Subject: Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:19:55 +0200

> 
> Oh btw. Can we stick a might_sleep() into dev_close() *before* the test
> whether the device is up? That way, we'd have seen the bug, but
> apparently nobody before Florian ever did a 'ip link set wmaster0 down'
> while the other interfaces were still open.

I've added this to net-2.6.24