This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice 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: ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.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 foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:17:50 -0300 Subject: ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b6ee376cb0b7fb4e7e07d6cd248bd40436fb9ba6 ] When creating an ip6tnl tunnel with ip tunnel, rtnl_link_ops is not set before ip6_tnl_create2 is called. When register_netdevice is called, there is no linkinfo attribute in the NEWLINK message because of that. Setting rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice fixes that. Fixes: 0b112457229d ("ip6tnl: add support of link creation via rtnl") Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c @@ -343,12 +343,12 @@ static int ip6_tnl_create2(struct net_de t = netdev_priv(dev); + dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops; err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) goto out; strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name); - dev->rtnl_link_ops = &ip6_link_ops; dev_hold(dev); ip6_tnl_link(ip6n, t); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html