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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 18:26:43 +0200
commit350d6591c9670767e1002919dc866c83dddfc806 (patch)
treed2d6857fc9cadbe82541915f35265f5b1e2eb1ab /net/core
parenta5f56b52c878585b12b8bc37f737dcce4a660c64 (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/core')
-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 8e187f90c85d..5a3196448bd7 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7499,7 +7499,7 @@ 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;