for preventing race conditions within ioctl calls. Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
@@ -977,7 +977,10 @@ static void emac_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *ndev)
dev->mcast_pending = 1;
return;
}
+
+ mutex_lock(&dev->link_lock);
__emac_set_multicast_list(dev);
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->link_lock);
static int emac_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *sa)