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pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_release
authorXiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com>
Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:09:32 +0000 (00:09 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:31:30 +0000 (03:31 +0100)
commitdb8dbd5bbce8931798450d391dcb6ed574ca3ed8
tree4debc4a4ec4be37ba7c0735c6dbae5c40bc550f0
parent73eca9b3aa5b1a756c4f3ff400285e8fa4433c59
pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_release

[ Upstream commit 2b018d57ff18e5405823e5cb59651a5b4d946d7b ]

When PPPOE is running over a virtual ethernet interface (e.g., a
bonding interface) and the user tries to delete the interface in case
the PPPOE state is ZOMBIE, the kernel will loop forever while
unregistering net_device for the reference count is not decreased to
zero which should have been done with dev_put().

Signed-off-by: Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c