Commit 11513128 authored Aug 11, 2005 by Jeff Moyer Committed by David S. Miller Aug 11, 2005

[NETPOLL]: rx_flags bugfix



Initialize npinfo->rx_flags.  The way it stands now, this will have random
garbage, and so will incur a locking penalty even when an rx_hook isn't
registered and we are not active in the netpoll polling code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent a0d3bea3

net/core/netpoll.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -639,6 +639,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
		if (!npinfo)
		goto release;

		npinfo->rx_flags = 0;
		npinfo->rx_np = NULL;
		npinfo->poll_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
		npinfo->poll_owner = -1;

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