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authorDavid L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>2007-01-06 01:06:28 +0100
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2007-01-09 03:23:31 +0100
commit30f1962cb4491cfaabcd98715535f4bd7eba4307 (patch)
treedc89f681c2da9677826b89ad4acc8a7e489fa45b /net/ipv6
parentf6fce1f36022c103af046c5548c4eedb7f1c2f4e (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/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/addrconf.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 77da3a81cc0..c5005b23ec0 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;
}