Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Introduces new races in netdev_register_sysfs if the name changes, because > netdev_register_sysfs runs without RTNL at this point. So if some application > gets > in and changes the device name while netdev_register_sysfs is running, then > the class_dev->class_id would end up not matching the netdevice->name.
Indeed. It also seems to be possible now for someone to do an unregister_netdevice while netdev_register_sysfs is still going. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
