From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:45:50 -0800
> A deadlock was found in bridge netfilter code (2.4 only), when a device is > removed. > The device removal path causes a BPDU to be generated and ends up > self deadlocking on the BR lock. > > Simple fix would be to avoid generating config bpdu's > immediately when becoming root bridge, and just let the first hello > timer tick do that. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, I'll push this to Willy. Thanks Stephen. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html