From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[email protected]>
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:56:59 +0400,
Sergey Vlasov <[email protected]> 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: Alexander Patrakov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.16.9.orig/net/core/dev.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.9/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2932,11 +2932,11 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
switch(dev->reg_state) {
case NETREG_REGISTERING:
+ dev->reg_state = NETREG_REGISTERED;
err = netdev_register_sysfs(dev);
if (err)
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed sysfs registration (%d)\n",
dev->name, err);
- dev->reg_state = NETREG_REGISTERED;
break;
case NETREG_UNREGISTERING:
--
-
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