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