Re: 'rmmod -f ipv6': BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

From: Cong Wang
Date: Thu Jul 04 2013 - 21:17:27 EST


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:29 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Linus LÃssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 23:04:34 +0200
>
>> When trying to perform a forceful unload of an ipv6 kernel module
>> on a 3.10 kernel then I'm getting a kernel panic with the attached
>> trace.
>>
>> Is this supposed to happen due to the '-f' option or is this a bug
>> in the ipv6 code?
>
> The ipv6 module is not capable of being unloaded, sorry.
>

If so, we should remove inet6_exit()...
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