Hello Greg,

looks like the commit 8cc236db1a91 ("wwan: core: Fix missing RTM_NEWLINK event for default link") already included in v5.14, see details below the patch.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:54 PM gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

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

wwan: core: Fix missing RTM_NEWLINK event for default link

to the 5.14-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: wwan-core-fix-missing-rtm_newlink-event-for-default-link.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 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 8cc236db1a91d0c91651595ba75942a583008455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Loic Poulain loic.poulain@linaro.org Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:21:05 +0200 Subject: wwan: core: Fix missing RTM_NEWLINK event for default link

From: Loic Poulain loic.poulain@linaro.org

commit 8cc236db1a91d0c91651595ba75942a583008455 upstream.

A wwan link created via the wwan_create_default_link procedure is never notified to the user (RTM_NEWLINK), causing issues with user tools relying on such event to track network links (NetworkManager).

This is because the procedure misses a call to rtnl_configure_link(), which sets the link as initialized and notifies the new link (cf proper usage in __rtnl_newlink()).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: ca374290aaad ("wwan: core: support default netdev creation") Suggested-by: Sergey Ryazanov ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain loic.poulain@linaro.org Acked-by: Sergey Ryazanov ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

---

drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c @@ -990,6 +990,8 @@ static void wwan_create_default_link(str

    rtnl_configure_link(dev, NULL); /* Link initialized, notify new link */

•   rtnl_configure_link(dev, NULL); /* Link initialized, notify new link */
  

unlock: rtnl_unlock();

This change will duplicate the notification call. Fix already in v5.14:

$ git log --oneline v5.14 -- drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c d9d5b8961284 wwan: core: Avoid returning NULL from wwan_create_dev() 68d1f1d4af18 wwan: core: Fix missing RTM_NEWLINK event for default link

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from loic.poulain@linaro.org are

queue-5.14/wwan-core-fix-missing-rtm_newlink-event-for-default-link.patch queue-5.14/wcn36xx-ensure-finish-scan-is-not-requested-before-start-scan.patch