This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: Specify the owning module for lwtunnel ops to the 4.9-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: net-specify-the-owning-module-for-lwtunnel-ops.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Feb 1 08:50:24 CET 2017 From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:26:47 +0000 Subject: net: Specify the owning module for lwtunnel ops From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 88ff7334f25909802140e690c0e16433e485b0a0 ] Modules implementing lwtunnel ops should not be allowed to unload while there is state alive using those ops, so specify the owning module for all lwtunnel ops. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/lwtunnel.h | 2 ++ net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 2 ++ net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c | 1 + net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/include/net/lwtunnel.h +++ b/include/net/lwtunnel.h @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ struct lwtunnel_encap_ops { int (*get_encap_size)(struct lwtunnel_state *lwtstate); int (*cmp_encap)(struct lwtunnel_state *a, struct lwtunnel_state *b); int (*xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb); + + struct module *owner; }; #ifdef CONFIG_LWTUNNEL --- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c @@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ static const struct lwtunnel_encap_ops i .fill_encap = ip_tun_fill_encap_info, .get_encap_size = ip_tun_encap_nlsize, .cmp_encap = ip_tun_cmp_encap, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, }; static const struct nla_policy ip6_tun_policy[LWTUNNEL_IP6_MAX + 1] = { @@ -403,6 +404,7 @@ static const struct lwtunnel_encap_ops i .fill_encap = ip6_tun_fill_encap_info, .get_encap_size = ip6_tun_encap_nlsize, .cmp_encap = ip_tun_cmp_encap, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, }; void __init ip_tunnel_core_init(void) --- a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static const struct lwtunnel_encap_ops i .fill_encap = ila_fill_encap_info, .get_encap_size = ila_encap_nlsize, .cmp_encap = ila_encap_cmp, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, }; int ila_lwt_init(void) --- a/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c +++ b/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ static const struct lwtunnel_encap_ops m .fill_encap = mpls_fill_encap_info, .get_encap_size = mpls_encap_nlsize, .cmp_encap = mpls_encap_cmp, + .owner = THIS_MODULE, }; static int __init mpls_iptunnel_init(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rshearma@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/lwtunnel-fix-oops-on-state-free-after-encap-module-unload.patch queue-4.9/net-specify-the-owning-module-for-lwtunnel-ops.patch queue-4.9/net-mpls-fix-multipath-selection-for-lsr-use-case.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