Julian Anastasov <j...@ssi.bg> writes:
> Hello,
>
> 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")
>
> For now I see them only in 3.2.71+ and 3.12.48+.
> I think, they will appear in other stable versions too...
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.
Eric
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