Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 May 2008 05:45:36 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 24rc8: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ... to become free | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Roland" <devzero@web.de> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:38:36 +0200
> it seems it`s lapbether driver > > reproduce: > > on system with pcnet32 (vmware) do > > modprobe pcnet32 > modprobe lapbether > modprobe -r lapbether > modprobe -r pcnet32 -> hang -> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to > become free
lapbeth_cleanup_driver() unregisters the netdevice, but does not release the reference to lapbeth->ethdev in those device instances.
Once this happens, and the lapbeth_dev_notifier is unregistered, these references will leak forever.
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