netdev - Re: That's pretty much it for 3.5.0

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:27:53 -0700
From:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	mark.d.rustad@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: That's pretty much it for 3.5.0

On 7/17/2012 3:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:13:36 -0700
>
>> Perhaps the easiest way is to check net->count this should be zero
>> until setup_net is called.
>>
>> if (!atomic_read(&init_net.count))
>> 	return ret;
>>
>
> Won't work, setup_net() runs via a pure_initcall().
>

Why not must have missed something? cgroup_init() and
cgroup_early_init() both run before _initcall() routines are
called via kernel_init() so this will stop the update in
netprio from occurring.

And I don't see any race elsewhere for this.
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