[PATCH 1/2] net: fib_rules ordering fixes.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Thu Nov 6 07:34:28 PST 2008


We need to setup the network namespace state before we register
the notifier.  Otherwise if a network device is already registered
we get a nasty NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at maxwell.aristanetworks.com>
---
 net/core/fib_rules.c |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/fib_rules.c b/net/core/fib_rules.c
index 79de3b1..32b3a01 100644
--- a/net/core/fib_rules.c
+++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c
@@ -664,17 +664,18 @@ static int __init fib_rules_init(void)
 	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_DELRULE, fib_nl_delrule, NULL);
 	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_GETRULE, NULL, fib_nl_dumprule);
 
-	err = register_netdevice_notifier(&fib_rules_notifier);
+	err = register_pernet_subsys(&fib_rules_net_ops);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto fail;
 
-	err = register_pernet_subsys(&fib_rules_net_ops);
+	err = register_netdevice_notifier(&fib_rules_notifier);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto fail_unregister;
+
 	return 0;
 
 fail_unregister:
-	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&fib_rules_notifier);
+	unregister_pernet_subsys(&fib_rules_net_ops);
 fail:
 	rtnl_unregister(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWRULE);
 	rtnl_unregister(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_DELRULE);
-- 
1.5.6.5



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