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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2009-12-13 22:39:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-18 14:05:38 -0800 |
| commit | ad496b34c6835a89dd3a8f6c07dfcf8a0dd7c277 (patch) | |
| tree | 11ea467997f677454fa4ddf54e7632c2d522b781 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | 383073d49fc78aa793c51018e29253c83410401e (diff) | |
net: Fix userspace RTM_NEWLINK notifications.
commit d90a909e1f3e006a1d57fe11fd417173b6494701 upstream.
I received some bug reports about userspace programs having problems
because after RTM_NEWLINK was received they could not immeidate
access files under /proc/sys/net/ because they had not been
registered yet.
The problem was trivailly fixed by moving the userspace
notification from rtnetlink_event to the end of register_netdevice.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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 fe10551d3671..584046eef9cb 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4860,6 +4860,11 @@ 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; @@ -5398,6 +5403,12 @@ 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: |