I believe there are some unresolved memory management issues with HTB. It looks like deleting the qdisc is causing some use after free or memory corruption problems.
See:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6681
I don't use HTB so I have no idea if this a new or old problem.
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