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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init_netdev missing locking
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:33:18 -0700
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:05:20 -0700
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

> It looks like the call to dev_alloc_name() in init_netdev()
> isn't protected by the required locking.
> This patch adds rtnl_lock/unlock around the call to dev_alloc_name().
> 
> Comments?  or please apply.

Your fix is correct, so I've applied it.  Stephen is working to
deprecate the one thing that uses this function (init_etherdev()).

Please in the future properly root your patch, I had to fix this
one up before my automated scripts would eat it :)