From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix uevent race in register_netdevice() Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:46:30 +0300 Message-ID: <20110516143913.13838.85357.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from emh07.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.117]:48991 "EHLO emh07.mail.saunalahti.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755865Ab1EPOqe (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 10:46:34 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm trying to fix a race in register_netdevice(). The problem is that there's a uevent to userspace before the netdevice is ready for use. The problem is described here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15606 I have sent few different ways to fix this, but none of them have been really usable. Now I came up with a way which changes the driver core to make it possible send the uevent in a separate call. This is a clean and safe way to fix the race. Downside is that two new functions are added to the driver core interface. Please comment. --- Kalle Valo (2): driver core: add device_add_noevent() and device_uevent() net: postpone net device uevent to fix a race drivers/base/core.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- include/linux/device.h | 2 + net/core/dev.c | 3 ++ net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 + 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)