linux-kernel - Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:34:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, satyam@...radead.org, flo@...822.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com,
	ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, yi.zhu@...el.com
Subject: Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:19:55 +0200

> 
> Oh btw. Can we stick a might_sleep() into dev_close() *before* the test
> whether the device is up? That way, we'd have seen the bug, but
> apparently nobody before Florian ever did a 'ip link set wmaster0 down'
> while the other interfaces were still open.

I've added this to net-2.6.24
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