From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:18:00 +0100

quoted text
> veth: fix dev refcount race
> 
> When deleting the veth driver, veth_close calls netif_carrier_off
> for the two extremities of the network device. netif_carrier_off on
> the peer device will fire an event and hold a reference on the peer
> device. Just after, the peer is unregistered taking the rtnl_lock while
> the linkwatch_event is scheduled. If __linkwatch_run_queue does not
> occurs before the unregistering, unregister_netdevice will wait for
> the dev refcount to reach zero holding the rtnl_lock and linkwatch_event
> will wait for the rtnl_lock and hold the dev refcount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>

Thank you for fixing this bug, patch applied.
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