From: Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:42:21 +0100
> Dear all,
>
> since some 2.6.24rc version I suddenly experience such messages on
> console when trying to shutdown a vpn connection:
>
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for tun0 to become free. Usage count = 1
>
> or when removing an usb wlan dongle (although it was ifconfig wlan0
> down'd before)
Current GIT already has a fix for this, attached below:
[NEIGH]: Revert 'Fix race between neigh_parms_release and neightbl_fill_parms'
Commit 9cd40029423701c376391da59d2c6469672b4bed (Fix race between
neigh_parms_release and neightbl_fill_parms) introduced device
reference counting regressions for several people, see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778
for example.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index cc8a2f1..29b8ee4 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1316,6 +1316,8 @@ void neigh_parms_release(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct
neigh_parms *parms)
*p = parms->next;
parms->dead = 1;
write_unlock_bh(&tbl->lock);
+ if (parms->dev)
+ dev_put(parms->dev);
call_rcu(&parms->rcu_head, neigh_rcu_free_parms);
return;
}
@@ -1326,8 +1328,6 @@ void neigh_parms_release(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct
neigh_parms *parms)
void neigh_parms_destroy(struct neigh_parms *parms)
{
- if (parms->dev)
- dev_put(parms->dev);
kfree(parms);
}
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