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 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: vti6-fix-device-register-to-report-ifla_info_kind.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 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-4.9/vti6-fix-device-register-to-report-ifla_info_kind.patch