From: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org> The shutdown of an batman-adv interface can happen with one of its slave interfaces still being in the BATADV_IF_TO_BE_ACTIVATED state. A possible reason for it is that the routing algorithm BATMAN_V was selected and batadv_schedule_bat_ogm was not yet called for this interface. This slave interface still has to be set to BATADV_IF_INACTIVE or the batman-adv interface will never reduce its usage counter and thus never gets shutdown.
This problem can be simulated via: $ modprobe dummy $ modprobe batman-adv routing_algo=BATMAN_V $ ip link add bat0 type batadv $ ip link set dummy0 master bat0 $ ip link set dummy0 up $ ip link del bat0 unregister_netdevice: waiting for bat0 to become free. Usage count = 3 Reported-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschif...@universe-factory.net> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklind...@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a...@unstable.cc> --- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index b22b2775a0a5..c61d5b0b24d2 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -572,8 +572,7 @@ void batadv_hardif_disable_interface(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface, struct batadv_priv *bat_priv = netdev_priv(hard_iface->soft_iface); struct batadv_hard_iface *primary_if = NULL; - if (hard_iface->if_status == BATADV_IF_ACTIVE) - batadv_hardif_deactivate_interface(hard_iface); + batadv_hardif_deactivate_interface(hard_iface); if (hard_iface->if_status != BATADV_IF_INACTIVE) goto out; -- 2.8.1