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Commit ff6c130e authored by Haiyang Zhang's avatar Haiyang Zhang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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hv_netvsc: Fix race of register_netdevice_notifier and VF register



commit 85520856 upstream.

If VF NIC is registered earlier, NETDEV_REGISTER event is replayed,
but NETDEV_POST_INIT is not.

Move register_netdevice_notifier() earlier, so the call back
function is set before probing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e04e7a7b ("hv_netvsc: Fix a deadlock by getting rtnl lock earlier in netvsc_probe()")
Reported-by: default avatarDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 518ef825
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