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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
Cc: Michael Leun <lkml20100708@newton•leun.net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:04:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ocdi6nmv.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100804214618.GA6289@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Wed\, 4 Aug 2010 14\:46\:18 -0700")

Greg KH <greg@kroah•com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:35:43PM +0200, Michael Leun wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:29:39 +0200
>> Michael Leun <lkml20100708@newton•leun.net> wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> > Jul 10 20:02:36 doris kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to
>> > become free. Usage count = 3 [repeated]

Does this repeat indefinitely, or are there only a couple of repetitions?
If this repeats indefinitely every 5 seconds or so we have a serious bug.

Otherwise we just have cleanup taking longer than it should, which isn't
ideal but it is much less severe.

>> > Now one might say it is fault of openvpn (used OpenVPN 2.1_rc20
>> > i586-suse-linux - the one in openSuSE 11.2 package), openvpn didn't
>> > close some ressource and ssh does fine.
>> > 
>> > But: should'nt kernel clean up after process when it exits?
>> > And/or: Should'nt kernel clean up if last process in network namespace
>> > exits - there is nothing left which might use that interface?!
>> > 
>> > Greg KH <greg@kroah•com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Yes, you are correct.  Care to resend all of this to the
>> > > network-namespace developer(s) and the netdev mailing list so that
>> > > the correct people are notified so they can fix it all?
>> > 
>> > [X] done - hopefully, cannot find a particular network namespace
>> > developer in MAINTAINERS or source files. If such a one exists, please
>> > forward.
>> 
>> Did'nt work. Got no reaction from network mailinglist at all and bug
>> still is in 2.6.35.
>
> Eric, here's a bug with the network namespace stuff, care to work on
> resolving it?

Greg thanks for forwarding this in my direction.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20100709235744.GA12752@kroah.com>
     [not found]   ` <20100710101540.2799c9ef@xenia.leun.net>
     [not found]     ` <20100710140800.GA20424@kroah.com>
     [not found]       ` <20100710165208.59272ae6@xenia.leun.net>
     [not found]         ` <20100710235323.5336f627@xenia.leun.net>
2010-07-11 17:29           ` FW: NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) (was Re: sysfs bug when using tun with network namespaces) Michael Leun
2010-08-04 13:35             ` Michael Leun
2010-08-04 21:46               ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 22:04                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-08-04 22:11                 ` Michael Leun
2010-08-05  0:12                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-05  9:25                     ` Michael Leun
2010-08-05  9:51                       ` NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-05 10:13                         ` Michael Leun
2010-08-05 11:47                         ` NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (adding ipv6 address to interface) Michael Leun
2010-08-05 19:57                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-05 20:11                             ` David Miller
2010-08-05 23:45                               ` lkml20100708
2010-08-06  0:09                             ` Michael Leun
2010-10-21 15:15                           ` Michael Leun
2010-10-22 12:48                             ` David Lamparter
2010-10-22 17:05                               ` Michael Leun
2010-10-24 13:15                                 ` Michael Leun
2010-12-06 16:08                                   ` Menil Jean-Philippe
2010-12-06 21:22                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 22:47                                       ` Michael Leun
2010-12-07 10:40                                         ` Menil Jean-Philippe
2010-08-05 16:57                         ` NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) Ben Greear

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