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SubjectRe: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:01:09 +0100

>
> * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> i've seen such problems (locked up box with endless loop of usage count
> == 1) with pppoe in the past, and it seemed to be related to dynamic
> IPs. (i saw that well before 2.6.24 - reported it once to davem)

No, this is a different bug Andi is seeing and it was
recently introduced:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778


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