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authorEric W. Biederman2012-04-19 13:20:32 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller2012-04-20 21:21:16 -0400
commit2ca794e5e86c800d7f98c4ebb8bd325099c0afe8 (patch)
treef0ae38f58dec5a07ae57e31aca4943c85ffe9d65 /include
parentbc8a36942a5c05896d373a8e98d5e6b14514b4bc (diff)
net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.
If the netfilter code is modified to use register_net_sysctl_table the kernel fails to boot because the per net sysctl infrasturce is not setup soon enough. So to avoid races call net_sysctl_init from sock_init(). Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/net_namespace.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index 446245e3adea..767dcd401e57 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -283,6 +283,11 @@ struct ctl_path;
struct ctl_table;
struct ctl_table_header;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+extern int net_sysctl_init(void);
+#else
+static inline int net_sysctl_init(void) { return 0; }
+#endif
extern struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl_table(struct net *net,
const struct ctl_path *path, struct ctl_table *table);
extern struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl_rotable(