bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink

Need to cleanup bridge device timers and ports when being bridge
device is being removed via netlink.

This fixes the problem of observed when doing:
 ip link add br0 type bridge
 ip link set dev eth1 master br0
 ip link set br0 up
 ip link del br0

which would cause br0 to hang in unregister_netdev because
of leftover reference count.

Reported-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
stephen hemminger
2011-10-06 11:19:41 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent ae2a458315
commit 1ce5cce895
3 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ static inline int br_is_root_bridge(const struct net_bridge *br)
/* br_device.c */
extern void br_dev_setup(struct net_device *dev);
extern void br_dev_delete(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *list);
extern netdev_tx_t br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER