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Commit aaf9522d authored by Benjamin Poirier's avatar Benjamin Poirier Committed by David S. Miller
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netiucv: Hold rtnl between name allocation and device registration.



fixes a race condition between concurrent initializations of netiucv devices
that try to use the same name.

sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/iucv/netiucv2'
[...]
Call Trace:
([<00000000002edea4>] sysfs_add_one+0xb0/0xdc)
 [<00000000002eecd4>] create_dir+0x80/0xfc
 [<00000000002eee38>] sysfs_create_dir+0xe8/0x118
 [<00000000003835a8>] kobject_add_internal+0x120/0x2d0
 [<00000000003839d6>] kobject_add+0x62/0x9c
 [<00000000003d9564>] device_add+0xcc/0x510
 [<000003e00212c7b4>] netiucv_register_device+0xc0/0x1ec [netiucv]

Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>
Tested-by: default avatarUrsula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c9bfbb31
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