Re: unregister_netdevice warnings when deleting netns

[Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>]

	Hello,

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Anand Gurram wrote:
> >
> >> I am currently using kernel version 3.16.7 on a linux switch.
> >> While creating and destroying network namespaces I am observing below logs
> >> on the console
> >> "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1"
> >> 
> >> Can you please suggest and provide instructions on how to debug this issue.
> >> If any fix already available can you please point me to the link.
> >
> > 	There are two commits from Linux 4.2 that may help:
> >
> > commit e9e4dd3267d0 ("net: do not process device backlog during unregistration")
> > commit 2c17d27c36dc ("net: call rcu_read_lock early in process_backlog")
> >
> If that message repeats indefinitely it means there is a leaked
> reference to the network namespaces lo device.
> 
> If the message just spits out a few times and then goes away it simply
> means that something is taking a while to cleanup and drop it's
> reference.
> 
> This is slightly complicated by the fact that it is not uncommon when a
> network device goes away to redirect all references to itself to the lo
> device.

	Yes, there is a little chance with forwarding disabled,
i.e. when presence of "ipv4: Avoid crashing in ip_error" does
not matter, flying packet to leave new reference somewhere,
without crashing. But it may be another problem, of course.

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>