Sergey Vlasov 9469d458b9 [NET]: Fix hotplug race during device registration. ...

From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:56:59 +0400,
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> wrote:

> However, show_address() does not output anything unless
> dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED - and this state is set by
> netdev_run_todo() only after netdev_register_sysfs() returns, so in
> the meantime (while netdev_register_sysfs() is busy adding the
> "statistics" attribute group) some process may see an empty "address"
> attribute.

I've tried the attached patch, suggested by Sergey Vlasov on
hotplug-devel@, and as far as i can test it works just fine.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2006-04-09 22:32:48 -07:00

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datagram.c

[PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications

2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00

dev_mcast.c

[NET]: Remove more unneeded typecasts on *malloc()

2006-01-11 16:32:14 -08:00

dev.c

[NET]: Fix hotplug race during device registration.

2006-04-09 22:32:48 -07:00

dst.c

[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER

2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00

dv.c

[NET]: More kzalloc conversions.

2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00

ethtool.c

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)

2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00

filter.c

[NET]: more whitespace issues in net/core/filter.c

2006-01-23 16:26:16 -08:00

flow.c

[NET]: More kzalloc conversions.

2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00

gen_estimator.c

[NET]: More kzalloc conversions.

2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00

gen_stats.c

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00

iovec.c

[PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups

2005-05-01 08:59:08 -07:00

link_watch.c

[NET]: Convert RTNL to mutex.

2006-03-20 22:23:58 -08:00

Makefile

[PATCH] net/: fix the WIRELESS_EXT abuse

2006-01-30 20:35:30 -05:00

neighbour.c

[NET]: More kzalloc conversions.

2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00

net-sysfs.c

[NET]: Fix an off-by-21-or-49 error.

2006-04-09 22:25:26 -07:00

netpoll.c

[NET]: Convert RTNL to mutex.

2006-03-20 22:23:58 -08:00

pktgen.c

[PKTGEN]: Add MPLS extension.

2006-03-23 01:10:26 -08:00

request_sock.c

[NET]: More kzalloc conversions.

2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00

rtnetlink.c

[PATCH] WE-20 for kernel 2.6.16

2006-03-23 07:12:57 -05:00

scm.c

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)

2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00

skbuff.c

[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators

2006-03-25 08:22:49 -08:00

sock.c

[NET]: add SO_RCVBUF comment

2006-03-31 02:09:36 -08:00

stream.c

[NET]: Avoid atomic xchg() for non-error case

2006-01-03 13:10:44 -08:00

sysctl_net_core.c

[IPSEC]: Sync series - core changes

2006-03-20 19:15:11 -08:00

utils.c

[PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs

2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00

wireless.c

[PATCH] WE-20 for kernel 2.6.16

2006-03-23 07:12:57 -05:00