bridge: fix hang on removal of bridge via netlink
[ Upstream commit 1ce5cce8 ] 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> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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