[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
index 50682d3..d6dfd7d 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -1949,8 +1949,8 @@
void xfrm_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev)
{
while ((dst = dst->child) && dst->xfrm && dst->dev == dev) {
- dst->dev = &loopback_dev;
- dev_hold(&loopback_dev);
+ dst->dev = loopback_dev;
+ dev_hold(dst->dev);
dev_put(dev);
}
}
