netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink

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Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:24:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sri@...ibm.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink

From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:02:49 -0700

> On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 14:19 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Need to cleanup bridge device timers and ports when being bridge
>> device is being removed via netlink.
>> 
>> This fixes the problem of observed when doing:
>>  ip link add br0 type bridge
>>  ip link set dev eth1 master br0
>>  ip link set br0 up
>>  ip link del br0
>> 
>> which would cause br0 to hang in unregister_netdev because
>> of leftover reference count.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>

Applied to 'net' and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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