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bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink
authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:19:41 +0000 (11:19 +0000)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:18:01 +0000 (11:18 -0800)
commit250b17b19ed6544a3af7184210cc39830134beca
tree08a3d10cd12e912bfc7a1dfafc4ae824cecc2327
parentd68a2fdf4a9186ab60c8bdb3c4ff769ee186d96a
bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink

[ Upstream commit 1ce5cce895309862d2c35d922816adebe094fe4a ]

Need to cleanup bridge device timers and ports when being bridge
device is being removed via netlink.

This fixes the problem of observed when doing:
 ip link add br0 type bridge
 ip link set dev eth1 master br0
 ip link set br0 up
 ip link del br0

which would cause br0 to hang in unregister_netdev because
of leftover reference count.

Reported-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/bridge/br_if.c
net/bridge/br_netlink.c
net/bridge/br_private.h