linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE

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Message-Id: <200801202158.42093.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:58:41 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE


> It seems to have stopped when i stopped using ipsec and started using
> vpnc.

Kernel ipsec was active yes. However I normally don't see it although
it is often active, that was the first time I think

(except long ago) 

> (but no firm info - this was sporadic - happened every few months 
> or so) Are you using ipsec and dynamic IPs by any chance?

and the ISP uses dynamic IPs.

-Andi
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