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net: Fix ipv6 neighbour unregister_sysctl_table warning
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In my testing of 2.6.37 I was occassionally getting a warning about
sysctl table entries being unregistered in the wrong order.  Digging
in it turns out this dates back to the last great sysctl reorg done
where Al Viro introduced the requirement that sysctl directories
needed to be created before and destroyed after the files in them.

It turns out that in that great reorg /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh was
overlooked.  So this patch fixes that oversight and makes an annoying
warning message go away.

>------------[ cut here ]------------
>WARNING: at kernel/sysctl.c:1992 unregister_sysctl_table+0x134/0x164()
>Pid: 23951, comm: kworker/u:3 Not tainted 2.6.37-350888.2010AroraKernelBeta.fc14.x86_64 #1
>Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8103e034>] warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98
> [<ffffffff8103e061>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17
> [<ffffffff810452f8>] unregister_sysctl_table+0x134/0x164
> [<ffffffff810e7834>] ? kfree+0xc4/0xd1
> [<ffffffff813439b2>] neigh_sysctl_unregister+0x22/0x3a
> [<ffffffffa02cd14e>] addrconf_ifdown+0x33f/0x37b [ipv6]
> [<ffffffff81331ec2>] ? skb_dequeue+0x5f/0x6b
> [<ffffffffa02ce4a5>] addrconf_notify+0x69b/0x75c [ipv6]
> [<ffffffffa02eb953>] ? ip6mr_device_event+0x98/0xa9 [ipv6]
> [<ffffffff813d2413>] notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x5e
> [<ffffffff8105bdea>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0xf/0x11
> [<ffffffff8133cdac>] call_netdevice_notifiers+0x45/0x4a
> [<ffffffff8133d2b0>] rollback_registered_many+0x118/0x201
> [<ffffffff8133d3af>] unregister_netdevice_many+0x16/0x6d
> [<ffffffff8133d571>] default_device_exit_batch+0xa4/0xb8
> [<ffffffff81337c42>] ? cleanup_net+0x0/0x194
> [<ffffffff81337a2a>] ops_exit_list+0x4e/0x56
> [<ffffffff81337d36>] cleanup_net+0xf4/0x194
> [<ffffffff81053318>] process_one_work+0x187/0x280
> [<ffffffff8105441b>] worker_thread+0xff/0x19f
> [<ffffffff8105431c>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x19f
> [<ffffffff8105776d>] kthread+0x7d/0x85
> [<ffffffff81003824>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [<ffffffff810576f0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x85
> [<ffffffff81003820>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
>---[ end trace 8a7e9310b35e9486 ]---

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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ebiederm authored and davem330 committed Feb 1, 2011
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
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Expand Up @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
#include <net/addrconf.h>
#include <net/inet_frag.h>

static struct ctl_table empty[1];

static ctl_table ipv6_table_template[] = {
{
.procname = "route",
Expand All @@ -35,6 +37,12 @@ static ctl_table ipv6_table_template[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
{
.procname = "neigh",
.maxlen = 0,
.mode = 0555,
.child = empty,
},
{ }
};

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -152,7 +160,6 @@ static struct ctl_table_header *ip6_base;

int ipv6_static_sysctl_register(void)
{
static struct ctl_table empty[1];
ip6_base = register_sysctl_paths(net_ipv6_ctl_path, empty);
if (ip6_base == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
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