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SubjectRe: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +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.

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).




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