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authorStephen Hemminger2009-02-26 07:49:24 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller2009-03-03 09:47:46 +0100
commit5a5990d3090b03745a9548a6f5edef02095675cf (patch)
treed8d08f214886b544b706fa491f437792846c3658 /net/core/net-sysfs.c
parentOMAP: enable smc911x support for LDP platform (diff)
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net: Avoid race between network down and sysfs
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/net-sysfs.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 6ac29a46e23e..484f58750eba 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ static ssize_t netdev_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
if (endp == buf)
goto err;
- rtnl_lock();
+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
+
if (dev_isalive(net)) {
if ((ret = (*set)(net, new)) == 0)
ret = len;