This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/net: macvtap and tun depend on INET to the 3.14-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: drivers-net-macvtap-and-tun-depend-on-inet.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Fri Nov 7 11:37:05 PST 2014 From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:10:31 +0000 Subject: drivers/net: macvtap and tun depend on INET From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit de11b0e8c569b96c2cf6a811e3805b7aeef498a3 ] These drivers now call ipv6_proxy_select_ident(), which is defined only if CONFIG_INET is enabled. However, they have really depended on CONFIG_INET for as long as they have allowed sending GSO packets from userland. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f43798c27684 ("tun: Allow GSO using virtio_net_hdr") Fixes: b9fb9ee07e67 ("macvtap: add GSO/csum offload support") Fixes: 5188cd44c55d ("drivers/net, ipv6: Select IPv6 fragment idents for virtio UFO packets") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ config MACVLAN config MACVTAP tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" depends on MACVLAN + depends on INET help This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device @@ -205,6 +206,7 @@ config RIONET_RX_SIZE config TUN tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" + depends on INET select CRC32 ---help--- TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/drivers-net-ipv6-select-ipv6-fragment-idents-for-virtio-ufo-packets.patch queue-3.14/drivers-net-disable-ufo-through-virtio.patch queue-3.14/drivers-net-macvtap-and-tun-depend-on-inet.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