Patch "gtp: add genl family modules alias" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "gtp: add genl family modules alias" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    gtp: add genl family modules alias

to the 4.9-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:
     gtp-add-genl-family-modules-alias.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Thu Jun 15 14:56:50 CEST 2017
From: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@tpip.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:40:56 +0100
Subject: gtp: add genl family modules alias

From: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@tpip.net>


[ Upstream commit ab729823ec16aef384f09fd2cffe0b3d3f6e6cba ]

Auto-load the module when userspace asks for the gtp netlink
family.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@tpip.net>
Acked-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/gtp.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c
@@ -1372,3 +1372,4 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Harald Welte <hwelte@sysmocom.de>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Interface driver for GTP encapsulated traffic");
 MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gtp");
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("gtp");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aschultz@tpip.net are

queue-4.9/gtp-add-genl-family-modules-alias.patch