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authorBenjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>2013-06-13 17:09:47 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-14 04:41:18 +0400
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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: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de> Tested-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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