4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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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);