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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2010-02-28 23:55:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2010-02-28 23:55:20 -0800 |
| commit | 35858adbfca13678af99fb31618ef4428d6dedb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 3336feaa61324486945816cb52c347733e7c0821 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | 197d4db752e67160d79fed09968c2140376a80a3 (diff) | |
| parent | 4b70858ba8d4537daf782defebe5f2ff80ccef2b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 6fe7d739e59b..be9924f60ec3 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5035,6 +5035,11 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) rollback_registered(dev); dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED; } + /* + * Prevent userspace races by waiting until the network + * device is fully setup before sending notifications. + */ + rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, ~0U); out: return ret; @@ -5597,6 +5602,12 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char /* Notify protocols, that a new device appeared. */ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_REGISTER, dev); + /* + * Prevent userspace races by waiting until the network + * device is fully setup before sending notifications. + */ + rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, ~0U); + synchronize_net(); err = 0; out: |