netdev - Re: BUG when unloading bonding on 2.6.29-rc7-git3

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Message-ID: <49B7CEF2.2000409@hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:47:14 -0400
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@...il.com>
CC:	Thomas Backlund <tmb@...driva.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG when unloading bonding on 2.6.29-rc7-git3

John Dykstra wrote:
> ipv6:  Fix BUG when disabled ipv6 module is unloaded
> 
> Do not try to "uninitialize" ipv6 if its initialization had been skipped
> because module parameter disable=1 had been specified.
> 
> Reported-by:  Thomas Backlund <tmb@...driva.org>
> Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@...il.com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/af_inet6.c |    3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> index da944ec..a0f1798 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
> @@ -1192,6 +1192,9 @@ module_init(inet6_init);
> 
> static void __exit inet6_exit(void)
> {
> +       if (disable_ipv6)
> +               return;
> +
>         /* First of all disallow new sockets creation. */
>         sock_unregister(PF_INET6);
>         /* Disallow any further netlink messages */

Acked-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>

Thanks for fixing this John.

Sorry, this was in the original patch I tested here, but somehow didn't make it
into what I sent to Dave.

-Brian
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