4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 483a6e4fa055123142d8956866fe2aa9c98d546d upstream. We need to call inet_frags_init() before register_pernet_subsys(), as a prereq for following patch ("inet: frags: use rhashtables for reassembly units") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c @@ -902,8 +902,6 @@ static struct pernet_operations ip4_frag void __init ipfrag_init(void) { - ip4_frags_ctl_register(); - register_pernet_subsys(&ip4_frags_ops); ip4_frags.hashfn = ip4_hashfn; ip4_frags.constructor = ip4_frag_init; ip4_frags.destructor = ip4_frag_free; @@ -914,4 +912,6 @@ void __init ipfrag_init(void) ip4_frags.frags_cache_name = ip_frag_cache_name; if (inet_frags_init(&ip4_frags)) panic("IP: failed to allocate ip4_frags cache\n"); + ip4_frags_ctl_register(); + register_pernet_subsys(&ip4_frags_ops); }