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authorJaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>2010-01-08 09:11:18 +0100
committerJaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>2010-01-08 09:11:18 +0100
commita4ad68d57e4dc4138304df23d1817eb094149389 (patch)
treeca7d8c4ce5377c4251560de06e15dd7be7063351 /net/core/dev.c
parentcd9d95a55550555da8e587ead9cbba5f98a371a3 (diff)
parentc97259df3f2e163c72f4d0685c61fb2e026dc989 (diff)
Merge branch 'topic/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 into devel
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c11
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: