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When PPPOE is running over a virtual ethernet interface (e.g., a bonding interface) and the user tries to delete the interface in case the PPPOE state is ZOMBIE, the kernel will loop forever while unregistering net_device for the reference count is not decreased to zero which should have been done with dev_put(). Signed-off-by: Xiaodong Xu <stid.smth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>