This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: core: fix module type in sock_diag_bind 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-core-fix-module-type-in-sock_diag_bind.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 Sat Jan 13 10:51:19 CET 2018 From: Andrii Vladyka <tulup@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 13:09:17 +0200 Subject: net: core: fix module type in sock_diag_bind From: Andrii Vladyka <tulup@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b8fd0823e0770c2d5fdbd865bccf0d5e058e5287 ] Use AF_INET6 instead of AF_INET in IPv6-related code path Signed-off-by: Andrii Vladyka <tulup@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/sock_diag.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/sock_diag.c +++ b/net/core/sock_diag.c @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ static int sock_diag_bind(struct net *ne case SKNLGRP_INET6_UDP_DESTROY: if (!sock_diag_handlers[AF_INET6]) request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%d", PF_NETLINK, - NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG, AF_INET); + NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG, AF_INET6); break; } return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tulup@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-core-fix-module-type-in-sock_diag_bind.patch