From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tom Gundersen , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 3.4 03/26] net: tunnels - enable module autoloading Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:50:26 -0400 Message-Id: <20140624154619.654785784@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140624154619.499002156@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140624154619.499002156@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tom Gundersen [ Upstream commit f98f89a0104454f35a62d681683c844f6dbf4043 ] Enable the module alias hookup to allow tunnel modules to be autoloaded on demand. This is in line with how most other netdev kinds work, and will allow userspace to create tunnels without having CAP_SYS_MODULE. Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipv4/ipip.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 1 + net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/ipip.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipip.c @@ -908,4 +908,5 @@ static void __exit ipip_fini(void) module_init(ipip_init); module_exit(ipip_fini); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ipip"); MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("tunl0"); --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Ville Nuorvala"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IPv6 tunneling device"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("ip6tnl"); MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("ip6tnl0"); #ifdef IP6_TNL_DEBUG --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -1303,4 +1303,5 @@ static int __init sit_init(void) module_init(sit_init); module_exit(sit_cleanup); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("sit"); MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("sit0");