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authorRustad, Mark D <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>2012-07-18 09:06:07 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-07-18 13:32:27 -0700
commit734b65417b24d6eea3e3d7457e1f11493890ee1d (patch)
tree608e36d53d11479bc95fda54cf83931102fc8935 /net/core/net_namespace.c
parentMAINTAINERS: Changes in qlcnic and qlge maintainers list (diff)
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net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head
This change eliminates an initialization-order hazard most recently seen when netprio_cgroup is built into the kernel. With thanks to Eric Dumazet for catching a bug. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/net_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net_namespace.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index dddbacb8f28c..42f1e1c7514f 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(net_mutex);
LIST_HEAD(net_namespace_list);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_namespace_list);
-struct net init_net;
+struct net init_net = {
+ .dev_base_head = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_net.dev_base_head),
+};
EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_net);
#define INITIAL_NET_GEN_PTRS 13 /* +1 for len +2 for rcu_head */