nfnetlink_bind request_module()s all the time as nfnetlink_get_subsys() shifts the argument by 8 to obtain the subsys id. So using type instead of type << 8 always returns NULL. Fixes: 03292745b02d11 ("netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loading") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c index 70277b1..27b93da 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static int nfnetlink_bind(struct net *net, int group) type = nfnl_group2type[group]; rcu_read_lock(); - ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type); + ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type << 8); rcu_read_unlock(); if (!ss) request_module("nfnetlink-subsys-%d", type); -- 2.0.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html