netdev - Re: [PATCH] pppoe: fix race at init time

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Message-Id: <20090812.164007.240124819.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gorcunov@...il.com
Cc:	for.poige+bugzilla.kernel.org@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	xemul@...nvz.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pppoe: fix race at init time

From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:46:42 +0400

> net,pppoe: fixup module init/exit subsequent calls
> 
> pernet data should allocated first and freed last
> on module init/exit routines otherwise it's possible
> to have unserialized calls to packet handling routines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>

Still no feedback on this one, but it looks totally correct to me.

So I've applied it to net-next-2.6 so that it doesn't get lost and if
it turns out we need it to actually fix a user reported bug we can
toss it into net-2.6 too.
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