Patch "vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND

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:
     vti6-fix-device-register-to-report-ifla_info_kind.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec  6 16:43:17 CET 2017
From: David Forster <dforster@brocade.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:27:59 +0000
Subject: vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND

From: David Forster <dforster@brocade.com>


[ Upstream commit 93e246f783e6bd1bc64fdfbfe68b18161f69b28e ]

vti6 interface is registered before the rtnl_link_ops block
is attached. As a result the resulting RTM_NEWLINK is missing
IFLA_INFO_KIND. Re-order attachment of rtnl_link_ops block to fix.

Signed-off-by: Dave Forster <dforster@brocade.com>
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>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
@@ -189,12 +189,12 @@ static int vti6_tnl_create2(struct net_d
 	struct vti6_net *ip6n = net_generic(net, vti6_net_id);
 	int err;
 
+	dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops;
 	err = register_netdevice(dev);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out;
 
 	strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name);
-	dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops;
 
 	dev_hold(dev);
 	vti6_tnl_link(ip6n, t);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dforster@brocade.com are

queue-4.4/vti6-fix-device-register-to-report-ifla_info_kind.patch