This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
flow_dissect: call init_default_flow_dissectors() earlier
to the 4.8-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:
flow_dissect-call-init_default_flow_dissectors-earlier.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c9b8af1330198ae241cd545e1f040019010d44d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:17:30 -0800
Subject: flow_dissect: call init_default_flow_dissectors() earlier
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c9b8af1330198ae241cd545e1f040019010d44d9 upstream.
Andre Noll reported panics after my recent fix (commit 34fad54c2537
"net: __skb_flow_dissect() must cap its return value")
After some more headaches, Alexander root caused the problem to
init_default_flow_dissectors() being called too late, in case
a network driver like IGB is not a module and receives DHCP message
very early.
Fix is to call init_default_flow_dissectors() much earlier,
as it is a core infrastructure and does not depend on another
kernel service.
Fixes: 06635a35d13d4 ("flow_dissect: use programable dissector in skb_flow_dissect and friends")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Diagnosed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/flow_dissector.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
@@ -945,4 +945,4 @@ static int __init init_default_flow_diss
return 0;
}
-late_initcall_sync(init_default_flow_dissectors);
+core_initcall(init_default_flow_dissectors);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/flow_dissect-call-init_default_flow_dissectors-earlier.patch
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