This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND 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: vti6-fix-device-register-to-report-ifla_info_kind.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 Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017 From: David Forster <dforster@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:27:59 +0000 Subject: vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND From: David Forster <dforster@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 93e246f783e6bd1bc64fdfbfe68b18161f69b28e ] vti6 interface is registered before the rtnl_link_ops block is attached. As a result the resulting RTM_NEWLINK is missing IFLA_INFO_KIND. Re-order attachment of rtnl_link_ops block to fix. Signed-off-by: Dave Forster <dforster@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c @@ -189,12 +189,12 @@ static int vti6_tnl_create2(struct net_d struct vti6_net *ip6n = net_generic(net, vti6_net_id); int err; + dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops; err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) goto out; strcpy(t->parms.name, dev->name); - dev->rtnl_link_ops = &vti6_link_ops; dev_hold(dev); vti6_tnl_link(ip6n, t); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dforster@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/vti6-fix-device-register-to-report-ifla_info_kind.patch