netdev - Re: [PATCH]ipv6:fix an oops when force unload ipv6 module

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Message-Id: <20091218.202533.245395320.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:25:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yanghy@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ipv6:fix an oops when force unload ipv6 module

From: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:41:55 +0800

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:17:01 +0800
>> Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> When I do an ipv6 module force unload,I got the following oops:
>>> #rmmod -f ipv6
>>>
>> 
>> Okay, but force unloading IPV6 leaves some dangling control
>> sockets that will crash in other ways.
>> 
> 
> Yes,but if we make sure that there is no other services and modules
> using IPV6,it can be force unloaded without causing other problems.

Yes, the cleanup code that is there should be correct.

Applied, thank you.
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