On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 14:14 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> While rebooting host running latest net-next
> 
>  unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 4
> 
> Oh well...
> 

It looks like David Ahern recent changes uncover a bug ?

Not clear which commit is at fault.

Maybe 3bfd847203c6d89532f836ad3f5b4ff4ced26dd9 ?

Somehow a down device can be found.

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
index b7f1d20..675a3b6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
@@ -725,10 +725,14 @@ static int fib_check_nh(struct fib_config *cfg, struct 
fib_info *fi,
                nh->nh_dev = dev = FIB_RES_DEV(res);
                if (!dev)
                        goto out;
-               dev_hold(dev);
                if (!netif_carrier_ok(dev))
                        nh->nh_flags |= RTNH_F_LINKDOWN;
-               err = (dev->flags & IFF_UP) ? 0 : -ENETDOWN;
+               if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
+                       err = 0;
+                       dev_hold(dev);
+               } else {
+                       err = -ENETDOWN;
+               }
        } else {
                struct in_device *in_dev;
 


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