This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: add missing netconf notif when 'all' is updated
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-add-missing-netconf-notif-when-all-is-updated.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d26c638c16cb54f6fb1507e27df93ede692db572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:09:21 +0200
Subject: ipv6: add missing netconf notif when 'all' is updated
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
commit d26c638c16cb54f6fb1507e27df93ede692db572 upstream.
The 'default' value was not advertised.
Fixes: f3a1bfb11ccb ("rtnl/ipv6: use netconf msg to advertise forwarding status")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -771,7 +771,14 @@ static int addrconf_fixup_forwarding(str
}
if (p == &net->ipv6.devconf_all->forwarding) {
+ int old_dflt = net->ipv6.devconf_dflt->forwarding;
+
net->ipv6.devconf_dflt->forwarding = newf;
+ if ((!newf) ^ (!old_dflt))
+ inet6_netconf_notify_devconf(net, NETCONFA_FORWARDING,
+ NETCONFA_IFINDEX_DEFAULT,
+ net->ipv6.devconf_dflt);
+
addrconf_forward_change(net, newf);
if ((!newf) ^ (!old))
inet6_netconf_notify_devconf(net, NETCONFA_FORWARDING,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ipv4-do-not-abuse-gfp_atomic-in-inet_netconf_notify_devconf.patch
queue-4.4/xfrm-fix-crash-in-xfrm_msg_getsa-netlink-handler.patch
queue-4.4/ipv6-do-not-abuse-gfp_atomic-in-inet6_netconf_notify_devconf.patch
queue-4.4/ovs-gre-geneve-fix-error-path-when-creating-an-iface.patch
queue-4.4/ipv6-add-missing-netconf-notif-when-all-is-updated.patch
