Re: [REGRESSION, bisect] net: ipv6: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2

From: David Ahern
Date: Wed Mar 02 2016 - 16:00:28 EST


On 3/2/16 12:31 PM, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:11:54AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
Hi, I got this line every 10 seconds with today's linux-next in a Hyper-V guest, even
when I didn't configure any NIC for the guest:

[ 72.604249] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2
[ 82.708170] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2
[ 92.788079] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2
[ 102.808132] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2
[ 112.928166] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2
[ 122.952069] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2

I don't think this is related to the underlying host, since it's related to "lo".

This should fix it:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/591102/


David