Re: Deadlock problem with dev->refcnt somewhere in netlink/multicast... [PATCH]

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

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:41:11 -0700
David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Below is a patch for the reference count problem you ran into.
> 
> The problem is that the IGMP code was using "IFF_UP" to determine
> if a report should be sent or a timer should be started. But it is not
> necessarily cleared during a destroy_dev.
> 
> The IPv4 code was also missing an ip_mc_down() call added in the
> IPv6 code for a similar case by Jan Oravec.

Applied to both 2.4.x and 2.6.x, thanks David.