Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan - device refcount bug.

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:36:16 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > If you rmmod a network device that is in a vlan, the system hangs waiting
> > for the refcount to go to zero, because it is -1.  The problem is that the
> > vlan notifier does an extra dev_put in NETDEV_UNREGISTER case of notifier.
> 
> Good catch.  It would seem to me that it would be good to have a
> BUG() or similar to catch any instance of the reference count going
> negative.

I'd likely accept such a patch. :-)