From 1ce5cce895309862d2c35d922816adebe094fe4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stephen hemminger Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:19:41 +0000 Subject: bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink 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 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/bridge/br_private.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/bridge/br_private.h') diff --git a/net/bridge/br_private.h b/net/bridge/br_private.h index 78cc364997d9..857a021deea9 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_private.h +++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ static inline int br_is_root_bridge(const struct net_bridge *br) /* br_device.c */ extern void br_dev_setup(struct net_device *dev); +extern void br_dev_delete(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *list); extern netdev_tx_t br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev); #ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER -- cgit v1.2.1