netdev - Re: [BRIDGE] warning message when add an interface to bridge

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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:18:56 +0800
From:	"Chung-Chi Lo" <linolo@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BRIDGE] warning message when add an interface to bridge

Thanks. After applying this patch, the warning message is gone.

[PATCH] net: Fix running without sysfs

On Dec 6, 2007 2:00 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:44:17 +0800
> > "Chung-Chi Lo" <linolo@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My kernel is Linxu 2.6.22.1. SYSFS is off.
> >> When adding an interface to bridge, console will show WARNING message.
> >> If turn SYSFS to on, then the WARNING message is gone.
> >> Any suggestion how to debug this problem? Thanks.
> >>
> >> # ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
> >> eth0: starting interface.
> >> # brctl addbr br0
> >> # brctl addif br0 eth0
> >> WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()
> >> Call Trace:
> >> [<80027844>] dump_stack+0x8/0x38
> >> [<8011f348>] kref_get+0xdc/0xe4
> >> [<8011ee20>] kobject_get+0x20/0x34
> >> [<8011e910>] kobject_shadow_add+0x5c/0x170
> >> [<8011ea34>] kobject_add+0x10/0x20
> >> [<8020aac0>] br_add_if+0xb4/0x1b4
> >> [<8020b354>] add_del_if+0x5c/0x118
> >> [<8020bcc4>] br_dev_ioctl+0x6c/0x88
> >> [<80182edc>] dev_ifsioc+0x334/0x3c0
> >> [<80183184>] dev_ioctl+0x21c/0x2ec
> >> [<8016f76c>] sock_ioctl+0x130/0x2e4
> >> [<800b3b2c>] do_ioctl+0x6c/0x84
> >> [<800b3d40>] vfs_ioctl+0x80/0x248
> >> [<800b3f58>] sys_ioctl+0x50/0x98
> >> [<8002a8a8>] stack_done+0x20/0x3c
> >> --
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> >
> > This is an an artifact of the kobject_shadow code which was reverted in later
> > kernels.
> > It is gone in 2.6.23
>
> I don't think it was the kobject_shadow, but rather we didn't initialize the kref
> or something like that in net/core/dev.c
>
> I believe commit 8b41d1887db718be9a2cd9e18c58ce25a4c7fd93 was the fix.
>
> Disabling sysfs can be a fun exercise in finding corner case bugs right now.
>
> Eric
>
>



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Lino, Chung-Chi Lo
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