From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: sd@queasysnail.net, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "macsec: add genl family module alias" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:22:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150545653494233@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
macsec: add genl family module alias
to the 4.9-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:
macsec-add-genl-family-module-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 Sep 14 23:20:08 PDT 2017
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:36:08 +0200
Subject: macsec: add genl family module alias
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
[ 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 <sd@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -3510,6 +3510,7 @@ 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-4.9/macsec-add-genl-family-module-alias.patch
queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-memory-leak-with-multiple-tables-during-netns-destruction.patch
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