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| author | David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> | 2007-01-06 01:06:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-01-09 03:23:31 +0100 |
| commit | 30f1962cb4491cfaabcd98715535f4bd7eba4307 (patch) | |
| tree | dc89f681c2da9677826b89ad4acc8a7e489fa45b /net | |
| parent | f6fce1f36022c103af046c5548c4eedb7f1c2f4e (diff) | |
[IPV4/IPV6]: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order.
It is important that we only assign dev->ip{,6}_ptr
only after all portions of the inet{,6} are setup.
Otherwise we can receive packets before the multicast
spinlocks et al. are initialized.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/devinet.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index 3ffa60dadc0c..73a62007e36e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -158,9 +158,8 @@ struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct net_device *dev) NET_IPV4_NEIGH, "ipv4", NULL, NULL); #endif - /* Account for reference dev->ip_ptr */ + /* Account for reference dev->ip_ptr (below) */ in_dev_hold(in_dev); - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev); #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL devinet_sysctl_register(in_dev, &in_dev->cnf); @@ -169,6 +168,8 @@ struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct net_device *dev) if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) ip_mc_up(in_dev); out: + /* we can receive as soon as ip_ptr is set -- do this last */ + rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev); return in_dev; out_kfree: kfree(in_dev); diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 77da3a81cc03..c5005b23ec05 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -393,10 +393,6 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev) if (netif_carrier_ok(dev)) ndev->if_flags |= IF_READY; - write_lock_bh(&addrconf_lock); - dev->ip6_ptr = ndev; - write_unlock_bh(&addrconf_lock); - ipv6_mc_init_dev(ndev); ndev->tstamp = jiffies; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL @@ -406,6 +402,10 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev) NULL); addrconf_sysctl_register(ndev, &ndev->cnf); #endif + write_lock_bh(&addrconf_lock); + dev->ip6_ptr = ndev; + write_unlock_bh(&addrconf_lock); + } return ndev; } |