From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757216AbYATUQh (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:16:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756795AbYATUQ1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:16:27 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46666 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755846AbYATUQ0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:16:26 -0500 X-Authenticated: #815327 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+GkPAt13SGvPx/PIkWvAI45pWTJlTUIcxaIvcGjo eyc+2OrUvhFitC Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:16:19 +0100 From: Malte =?UTF-8?B?U2NocsO2ZGVy?= To: Andi Kleen Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE Message-ID: <20080120211619.11535a95@highlander.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> References: <200801202053.30386.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: >=20 > My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endle= ss=20 > (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of=20 >=20 > unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count =3D= 1 >=20 > ppp-device was an active PPPoE device. >=20 > No more information currently. Now that you mention it, this happened to me too this morning. My system stops the ppp interface (pppoe) and starts it again (my provider shuts down the link every 24 hours, I want that to happen during the night, so I do a ifdown ppp0). --=20 --------------------------------------- Malte Schr=C3=B6der MalteSch@gmx.de ICQ# 68121508 --------------------------------------- --Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHk6wW4q3E2oMjYtURAibFAJ9nbk8VJfK626vw3LuH/J3SxiBqGACgqkDt XC9CmrOpuhZhSwRlobcfs+U= =Ngof -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/g6_XeXJ.s1ma5V6oZSrcPja--