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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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