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Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 2306d56fbb5..31568b2068a 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4909,9 +4909,6 @@ static int __init net_dev_init(void) if (register_pernet_subsys(&netdev_net_ops)) goto out; - if (register_pernet_device(&default_device_ops)) - goto out; - /* * Initialise the packet receive queues. */ @@ -4928,10 +4925,25 @@ static int __init net_dev_init(void) queue->backlog.weight = weight_p; } - netdev_dma_register(); - dev_boot_phase = 0; + /* The loopback device is special if any other network devices + * is present in a network namespace the loopback device must + * be present. Since we now dynamically allocate and free the + * loopback device ensure this invariant is maintained by + * keeping the loopback device as the first device on the + * list of network devices. Ensuring the loopback devices + * is the first device that appears and the last network device + * that disappears. + */ + if (register_pernet_device(&loopback_net_ops)) + goto out; + + if (register_pernet_device(&default_device_ops)) + goto out; + + netdev_dma_register(); + open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action); open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action); |