net: Fix userspace RTM_NEWLINK notifications.
commit0723f2f0124da4cb5ccf260bebfa703b24c199a4
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:39:28 +0000 (13 22:39 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:21 +0000 (18 13:44 -0800)
treebf4ed258729370a8c91a5de82a5c21ed7339204c
parent945d9a8325f6bc1f9fcb4221e5f8dab93e9e6718
net: Fix userspace RTM_NEWLINK notifications.

commit d90a909e1f3e006a1d57fe11fd417173b6494701 upstream.

I received some bug reports about userspace programs having problems
because after RTM_NEWLINK was received they could not immeidate
access files under /proc/sys/net/ because they had not been
registered yet.

The problem was trivailly fixed by moving the userspace
notification from rtnetlink_event to the end of register_netdevice.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/core/dev.c
net/core/rtnetlink.c