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authorFabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>2014-06-03 19:55:38 -0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-06-05 15:03:46 -0700
commitd4c642ea1239f0c5c1d794a5b788319d3373c58c (patch)
treefefa5990e0a8cdfa5ce21b997297805fc6b68592 /drivers/net
parentipv6: Fix regression caused by efe4208 in udp_v6_mcast_next() (diff)
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gianfar: Call netif_carrier_off() prior to registration
Quoting David Miller: "At the moment you call register_netdev() the device is visible, notifications are sent to userspace, and userland tools can try to bring the interface up and see the incorrect link state, before you do the netif_carrier_off(). Said another way, between the register_netdev() and netif_carrier_off() call, userspace can see the device in an inconsistent state." So call netif_carrier_off() prior to register_netdev(). Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index e2d42475b006..c81625ade4a3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -1373,6 +1373,9 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
gfar_hw_init(priv);
+ /* Carrier starts down, phylib will bring it up */
+ netif_carrier_off(dev);
+
err = register_netdev(dev);
if (err) {
@@ -1380,9 +1383,6 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
goto register_fail;
}
- /* Carrier starts down, phylib will bring it up */
- netif_carrier_off(dev);
-
device_init_wakeup(&dev->dev,
priv->device_flags &
FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_MAGIC_PACKET);