From b47300168e770b60ab96c8924854c3b0eb4260eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:33:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] net: Do not fire linkwatch events until the device is
registered.
Several device drivers try to do things like netif_carrier_off()
before register_netdev() is invoked. This is bogus, but too many
drivers do this to fix them all up in one go.
Reported-by: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/sched/sch_generic.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index 93cd30ce6501..cdcd16fcfeda 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ static void dev_watchdog_down(struct net_device *dev)
void netif_carrier_on(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state)) {
+ if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
+ return;
linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
if (netif_running(dev))
__netdev_watchdog_up(dev);
@@ -285,8 +287,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_on);
*/
void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev)
{
- if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state))
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER, &dev->state)) {
+ if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
+ return;
linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
+ }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_off);
--
2.20.1