From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:38:38 +0100

> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > AFAIS there's a tiny race window between these two
> > calls - after rtnl unregistered all the vlans, but 
> > the ioctl handler isn't set to NULL yet, user can 
> > manage to call this ioctl and create one vlan device, 
> > and that this function will later BUG_ON seeing 
> > non-emply hashes.
> 
> Indeed, I can't see anything preventing this.
> 
> > I think, that we must first close the vlan ioctl
> > and only after this remove all the vlans with the
> > vlan_netlink_fini() call.
> 
> That looks correct, thanks Pavel. Dave, please apply.

Applied to net-2.6, thanks!
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