Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754694Ab2JGXX2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:23:28 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:38555 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754515Ab2JGXXB (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:23:01 -0400 Message-Id: <20121007225842.174746398@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:59:28 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Rustad, Mark D" , Eric Dumazet , "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 054/108] net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head In-Reply-To: <20121007225834.673681075@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1914 Lines: 58 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Rustad, Mark D" commit 734b65417b24d6eea3e3d7457e1f11493890ee1d upstream. This change eliminates an initialization-order hazard most recently seen when netprio_cgroup is built into the kernel. With thanks to Eric Dumazet for catching a bug. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/core/dev.c | 3 ++- net/core/net_namespace.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0f28a9e..1cb0d8a 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -6283,7 +6283,8 @@ static struct hlist_head *netdev_create_hash(void) /* Initialize per network namespace state */ static int __net_init netdev_init(struct net *net) { - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&net->dev_base_head); + if (net != &init_net) + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&net->dev_base_head); net->dev_name_head = netdev_create_hash(); if (net->dev_name_head == NULL) diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index dddbacb..42f1e1c 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(net_mutex); LIST_HEAD(net_namespace_list); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_namespace_list); -struct net init_net; +struct net init_net = { + .dev_base_head = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_net.dev_base_head), +}; EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_net); #define INITIAL_NET_GEN_PTRS 13 /* +1 for len +2 for rcu_head */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/