linux-kernel - Re: 'rmmod -f ipv6': BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpWPDH3XGjtHXAjBjtp2bBfqKC6YPK=R_rGDMV0rjrgaxw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 09:17:22 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linus.luessing@....de,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'rmmod -f ipv6': BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:29 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 23:04:34 +0200
>
>> When trying to perform a forceful unload of an ipv6 kernel module
>> on a 3.10 kernel then I'm getting a kernel panic with the attached
>> trace.
>>
>> Is this supposed to happen due to the '-f' option or is this a bug
>> in the ipv6 code?
>
> The ipv6 module is not capable of being unloaded, sorry.
>

If so, we should remove inet6_exit()...
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