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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2019-05-16 08:09:57 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-25 18:16:11 +0200
commit032cb3ac33026712927d4c53367fb7e398916b0c (patch)
treedcc4c2dcc21d906ffdaf17b3720af78769588645 /net
parentb3be76062964d9ca9c707d092c7409537ae3a2c9 (diff)
net: avoid weird emergency message
[ Upstream commit d7c04b05c9ca14c55309eb139430283a45c4c25f ] When host is under high stress, it is very possible thread running netdev_wait_allrefs() returns from msleep(250) 10 seconds late. This leads to these messages in the syslog : [...] unregister_netdevice: waiting for syz_tun to become free. Usage count = 0 If the device refcount is zero, the wait is over. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f409406254dd..255f99cb7c48 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -8911,7 +8911,7 @@ static void netdev_wait_allrefs(struct net_device *dev)
refcnt = netdev_refcnt_read(dev);
- if (time_after(jiffies, warning_time + 10 * HZ)) {
+ if (refcnt && time_after(jiffies, warning_time + 10 * HZ)) {
pr_emerg("unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d\n",
dev->name, refcnt);
warning_time = jiffies;