netdev - Re: [PATCH] net ipv6: Fix duplicate /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh directory entries.

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, sunkan@...pa.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net ipv6: Fix duplicate /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh
 directory entries.

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:20:18 -0700

> 
> When I was fixing issues with unregisgtering tables under /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh
> by adding a mount point it appears I missed a critical ordering issue, in the
> ipv6 initialization.  I had not realized that ipv6_sysctl_register is called
> at the very end of the ipv6 initialization and in particular after we call
> neigh_sysctl_register from ndisc_init.
> 
> "neigh" needs to be initialized in ipv6_static_sysctl_register which is
> the first ipv6 table to initialized, and definitely before ndisc_init.
> This removes the weirdness of duplicate tables while still providing a
> "neigh" mount point which prevents races in sysctl unregistering.
> 
> This was initially reported at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31232
> Reported-by: sunkan@...pa.cx
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>

Applied, thanks.
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