Hi Robert,
2. Any ideas of something to try in order to make this repeatable?
What i would do to reproduce it, is make a script establishing the bridge, then flooding the bridge with some external ping -f, then shuting down the bridge. If there is a refcount release problem, it should appear on eavy load (some buffer overflow, or something like that).
Also, are you playing with ebtables? How do you use this bridge?
#Louis.
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:04:01 -0700
From: Robert Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Bridge] unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become
free. Usage count = 1 (2.6.12.3)
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello,
I know that this bug has been discussed before at length on this
mailing list, but previous post seemed to indicate that it was fixed
before kernel 2.6.12. I am still seeing this occasionally in kernel
2.6.12.3. The system is running knoppix, and IPV6 is not compiled
into the kernel(other posts mentioned numerous problems with the IPV6
code). But every so often, when bringing down the bridge (it doesn't
happen every time), the process hangs, and the following message
appears in dmesg repeatedly:
'unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1'
None of the processes involved can be killed, and an attempt to run
an ifconfig results in a process that is also waiting forever. At
this point the box must be rebooted forcefully.
Two questions.
1. In a previous post, someone mentioned one solution was to
commenting out the check that is hanging in the kernel. Does this
check preventing something terrible from happening(i assumed that it
does), or is it safe to remove it.
2. Any ideas of something to try in order to make this repeatable?
thanks,
--robert scott
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