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net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head
authorRustad, Mark D <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:06:07 +0000 (09:06 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:32:27 +0000 (13:32 -0700)
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 <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c
net/core/net_namespace.c

index 0f28a9e0b8ad9f8aed9cd1e5a50dc82bcefb2000..1cb0d8a6aa6c5cd3d23741cd5b941a23805b08bd 100644 (file)
@@ -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)
index dddbacb8f28ccba180cd20855476d5d7e351b1b8..42f1e1c7514f67ad56df06ffe53e6c94a094681a 100644 (file)
@@ -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 */