I found that after I repeatedly opened and closed PPP connections, I would
get an Oops. PPP daemon would try to allocate strange PPP interface numbers
(ppp12, for example) and other sanity checks would fail (kind != INTERFACE
|| CHANNEL)
The last_channel_index wasn't being cleaned up when the channel was closed,
leading to these problems the next time a PPP channel was opened. This
patch fixes the problem for me.
using ppp-2.4.0, patch against: linux-2.4.6
Regards,
Brian
*** ppp_generic.c Sun Apr 22 09:46:40 2001
--- /home/brian/linux/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c Fri Jul 13 18:38:30 2001
***************
*** 1871,1876 ****
--- 1796,1802 ----
ppp_disconnect_channel(pch);
wake_up_interruptible(&pch->file.rwait);
spin_lock_bh(&all_channels_lock);
+ last_channel_index--;
list_del(&pch->file.list);
spin_unlock_bh(&all_channels_lock);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&pch->file.refcnt))
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