netdev - Re: [BUG] in inet6

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Date:	Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:00:46 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	12o3l@...cali.nl, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] in inet6_create

In article <472A3218.20708@...cali.nl> (at Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:07:52 +0100), Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl> says:

> I got this bug recently, I am not sure whether this is related to any previously 
> reported ones. It was a recently pulled git kernel. Also I have been hacking my
> kernel a bit lately, but I think that I haven't got any changes in the currently
> running kernel.

Please try this.

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[IPV6]: Ensure to initialize inetsw6 array before we start accepting socket.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
index ecbd388..9ecd41b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ static int __init inet6_init(void)
 	/* Register the socket-side information for inet6_create.  */
 	for(r = &inetsw6[0]; r < &inetsw6[SOCK_MAX]; ++r)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(r);
+	synchronize_net();
 
 	/* We MUST register RAW sockets before we create the ICMP6,
 	 * IGMP6, or NDISC control sockets.

-- 
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki @ USAGI Project  <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
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