netdev - Re: [irda-users] [2.6.20-rt8] "Neighbour table overflow."

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Message-Id: <20070325.183622.26278284.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:36:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	samuel@...tiz.org
Cc:	gl@...-ac.de, irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net, paulus@...ba.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [irda-users] [2.6.20-rt8] "Neighbour table overflow."

From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:50:59 +0300

> I still think Guennadi's fix is correct even if you return 0 from the TX
> function only when you're running out of space. If we unregister the ppp
> interface before we get a chance to call ppp_output_wake(), then we'll leak
> an xmit_pending skb.

I agree, especially after thinking about this some more.

It's just really weird that we've never hit this before,
since this logic has been there forever, that's all :-)
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