Patch "gre6: allow to update all parameters via rtnl" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

Patch "gre6: allow to update all parameters via rtnl" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    gre6: allow to update all parameters via rtnl

to the 3.10-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:
     gre6-allow-to-update-all-parameters-via-rtnl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 Mon Jan 18 21:18:36 PST 2016
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 17:21:50 +0100
Subject: gre6: allow to update all parameters via rtnl
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1091
Lines: 38

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

[ Upstream commit 6a61d4dbf4f54b5683e0f1e58d873cecca7cb977 ]

Parameters were updated only if the kernel was unable to find the tunnel
with the new parameters, ie only if core pamareters were updated (keys,
addr, link, type).
Now it's possible to update ttl, hoplimit, flowinfo and flags.

Fixes: c12b395a4664 ("gre: Support GRE over IPv6")
Signed-off-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_gre.c |    8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1541,13 +1541,11 @@ static int ip6gre_changelink(struct net_
 			return -EEXIST;
 	} else {
 		t = nt;
-
-		ip6gre_tunnel_unlink(ign, t);
-		ip6gre_tnl_change(t, &p, !tb[IFLA_MTU]);
-		ip6gre_tunnel_link(ign, t);
-		netdev_state_change(dev);
 	}
 
+	ip6gre_tunnel_unlink(ign, t);
+	ip6gre_tnl_change(t, &p, !tb[IFLA_MTU]);
+	ip6gre_tunnel_link(ign, t);
 	return 0;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com are

queue-3.10/gre6-allow-to-update-all-parameters-via-rtnl.patch