From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58312 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbdIOGVl (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:21:41 -0400 Subject: Patch "macsec: add genl family module alias" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree To: sd@queasysnail.net, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:21:33 -0700 Message-ID: <150545649362163@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 macsec: add genl family module alias to the 4.12-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: macsec-add-genl-family-module-alias.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Thu Sep 14 23:20:23 PDT 2017 From: Sabrina Dubroca Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:36:08 +0200 Subject: macsec: add genl family module alias From: Sabrina Dubroca [ Upstream commit 78362998f58c7c271e2719dcd0aaced435c801f9 ] This helps tools such as wpa_supplicant can start even if the macsec module isn't loaded yet. Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/macsec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/macsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c @@ -3518,6 +3518,7 @@ module_init(macsec_init); module_exit(macsec_exit); MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("macsec"); +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("macsec"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MACsec IEEE 802.1AE"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sd@queasysnail.net are queue-4.12/macsec-add-genl-family-module-alias.patch queue-4.12/ipv6-fix-memory-leak-with-multiple-tables-during-netns-destruction.patch