This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gtp: add genl family modules alias
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:
gtp-add-genl-family-modules-alias.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 Thu Jun 15 14:56:50 CEST 2017
From: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:40:56 +0100
Subject: gtp: add genl family modules alias
From: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit ab729823ec16aef384f09fd2cffe0b3d3f6e6cba ]
Auto-load the module when userspace asks for the gtp netlink
family.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/gtp.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/gtp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gtp.c
@@ -1372,3 +1372,4 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Harald Welte <hwelte@xxxxxxxxxxx>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Interface driver for GTP encapsulated traffic");
MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gtp");
+MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY("gtp");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aschultz@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/gtp-add-genl-family-modules-alias.patch