From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33160 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751401AbcDPRGi (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:06:38 -0400 Subject: Patch "ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: cascardo@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:05:51 -0700 Message-ID: <1460826351194147@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 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 [ 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 Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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