netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] veth: Fix unregister_netdevice

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Date:	Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:56:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] veth: Fix unregister_netdevice_queue for
 veth

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:41:39 +0100

> Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
>> I tested the recent unregister many changes and got a weird,
>> nasty and seemingly unrelasted kernel oops. Changing
>> unregister_netdevice_queue to use list_move_tail fixes
>> the problem for me.
>> 
>> ip link add type veth
>> rmmod veth
>> 
>> ls /sys/class/net/
>> showed one of the veth devices still present.
>> 
>> A subsequent ip link oopsed the box.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
 ...
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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