Subject: Re: [patch 2.4] kernel oops on VLAN removal

From: Eran Mann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:51:51 +0300

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:36:37 +0300
> Eran Mann <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The current code attempts to add a proc entry for each vlan device,
>>however there is no check whether this attempt succeeded. When a device
>>is unregistered it tries to remove the proc entry, if none was added
>>the oops follows...
> 
> 
> Patch applied to my 2.4.x tree, scheduled for 2.4.23-preX
> 
> Can someone check out 2.6.x?
> 
It looks the same in 2.6.0-test3. The patch applies (with small offsets) 
and works (the oops is much harder to trigger in 2.6.x since 
PROC_NDYNAMIC is increased to 16384, I had to reduce it to 4096 to 
trigger the oops).

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