batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init

The initialization of an net_device object should be done in the
init/constructor function and not from the outside after the register_netdevice
was done to avoid race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index 368219e026a9..da000e90f87f 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -563,6 +563,11 @@ static int batadv_hard_if_event(struct notifier_block *this,
         struct batadv_hard_iface *primary_if = NULL;
         struct batadv_priv *bat_priv;
 
+        if (batadv_softif_is_valid(net_dev) && event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
+                batadv_sysfs_add_meshif(net_dev);
+                return NOTIFY_DONE;
+        }
+
         hard_iface = batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(net_dev);
         if (!hard_iface && event == NETDEV_REGISTER)
                 hard_iface = batadv_hardif_add_interface(net_dev);