Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:08:33 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE | From | David Miller <> |
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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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