netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] vxlan: Fix kernel crash on rmmod.

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pshelar@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] vxlan: Fix kernel crash on rmmod.

From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:38:06 -0700

> vxlan exit module unregisters vxlan net and then it unregisters
> rtnl ops which triggers vxlan_dellink() from __rtnl_kill_links().
> vxlan_dellink() deletes vxlan-dev from vxlan_list which has
> list-head in vxlan-net-struct but that is already gone due to
> net-unregister. That is how we are getting following crash.
> 
> Following commit fixes the crash by fixing module exit path.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>

Applied, thanks for fixing the commit message.
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