Bug 217137
| Summary: | "vconfig rem" issue when IPv6 forwarding was on | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dmitry Butskoy <dmitry> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6 | CC: | wtogami | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 2.6.20 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-03-19 16:11:20 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 142051 [details]
script to automate the test process
2.6.19 -- still not fixed. ...but in 2.6.20 seems to be fixed! More tests later... Assume fixed now. |
Description of problem: It seems that when any vlan interface was configured for IPv6 and for IPv6 *forwarding*, the removing of such interface ("vconfig rem") causes the kernel network subsystem to freeze, with the message of: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.9 to become free. Usage count = 1 (here vlan number 9 is just an example). Tested for both the latest 2.6.18 kernel and previous 2.6.17 (but perhaps the issue have appeared earlier). This bug is very very good reproducible. Note! You will be caused to reboot your machine after the test! Steps to Reproduce: On any simple installation with atleast one network interface present. The steps below is also attached as a file. modprobe 8021q vconfig set_name_type DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD vconfig add eth0 9 modprobe ipv6 ip link set up dev eth0.9 ip addr add 2001:b08:2:280::3:65aa/112 dev eth0.9 echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0.9/forwarding sleep 5 echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0.9/forwarding ip link set down dev eth0.9 vconfig rem eth0.9 Additional info: Without enabling of forwarding all is OK. Any type of forward enabling affects (i.e., echo 1 > .../all/forwarding is too). Without some sleep ("sleep 5") it might not appear. Seems to be independent of particular network driver (tested on 3c59x and tg3) Independent of whether vlan iface has an IPv4 config too or not. I am busy now to deal with kernel upstream myself, therefore, please, confirm this bug and maybe send it upstream.