Patch "ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:17:50 -0300
Subject: ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit b6ee376cb0b7fb4e7e07d6cd248bd40436fb9ba6 ]

When creating an ip6tnl tunnel with ip tunnel, rtnl_link_ops is not set
before ip6_tnl_create2 is called. When register_netdevice is called, there
is no linkinfo attribute in the NEWLINK message because of that.

Setting rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice fixes that.

Fixes: 0b112457229d ("ip6tnl: add support of link creation via rtnl")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -343,12 +343,12 @@ static int ip6_tnl_create2(struct net_de
 
 	t = netdev_priv(dev);
 
+	dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops;
 	err = register_netdevice(dev);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out;
 
 	strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name);
-	dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops;
 
 	dev_hold(dev);
 	ip6_tnl_link(ip6n, t);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cascardo@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch