net sysctl: Initialize the network sysctls sooner to avoid problems.
If the netfilter code is modified to use register_net_sysctl_table the
kernel fails to boot because the per net sysctl infrasturce is not setup
soon enough. So to avoid races call net_sysctl_init from sock_init().
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index d6c1af9..e345109 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2524,6 +2524,12 @@
static int __init sock_init(void)
{
int err;
+ /*
+ * Initialize the network sysctl infrastructure.
+ */
+ err = net_sysctl_init();
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
/*
* Initialize sock SLAB cache.