linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29.1: unregister

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Message-ID: <4A0E65F5.1040906@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 16 May 2009 09:06:29 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
CC:	"Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav@...is.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29.1: unregister_netdevice problem

Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 05/15/2009 12:12 PM:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:54:14PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:06:49AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:19:46AM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> Looks like 2.6.28.10 does not have this refcnt problem. Also, after I have
>>>> reversed net/ipv4/route.c changes from 2.6.29, the problem does not occur either.
>>> Very nice work! It should be a piece of cake now - there were not much
>>> changes. I'll look at it, as usual ;-), but, of course if it's
>>> possible, it would be great to try "in the meantime" with reverted the
>>> biggest of them append below.
>> I suspect the problem occurs when cand==rthi.
> 
> Looks like good catch! (But there could be more than this.) Then, of
> course it would be interesting to try first some fix (like nulling
> rthi after rt_free(cand), I guess).


On the other hand, since this looks like quite obvious bug (even if it
doesn't fix your problem), feel free to send here a patch fixing it any
way you like without waiting for the final test results (Cc-ing authors
of the offending patch, I hope).

Jarek P.
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