This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip6_tunnel: Use ip6_tnl_dev_init as the ndo_init function. to the 3.17-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: ip6_tunnel-use-ip6_tnl_dev_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 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 Tue Nov 18 09:07:25 PST 2014 From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:19:27 +0100 Subject: ip6_tunnel: Use ip6_tnl_dev_init as the ndo_init function. From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6c6151daaf2d8dc2046d9926539feed5f66bf74e ] ip6_tnl_dev_init() sets the dev->iflink via a call to ip6_tnl_link_config(). After that, register_netdevice() sets dev->iflink = -1. So we loose the iflink configuration for ipv6 tunnels. Fix this by using ip6_tnl_dev_init() as the ndo_init function. Then ip6_tnl_dev_init() is called after dev->iflink is set to -1 from register_netdevice(). Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c @@ -272,9 +272,6 @@ static int ip6_tnl_create2(struct net_de int err; t = netdev_priv(dev); - err = ip6_tnl_dev_init(dev); - if (err < 0) - goto out; err = register_netdevice(dev); if (err < 0) @@ -1462,6 +1459,7 @@ ip6_tnl_change_mtu(struct net_device *de static const struct net_device_ops ip6_tnl_netdev_ops = { + .ndo_init = ip6_tnl_dev_init, .ndo_uninit = ip6_tnl_dev_uninit, .ndo_start_xmit = ip6_tnl_xmit, .ndo_do_ioctl = ip6_tnl_ioctl, @@ -1546,16 +1544,10 @@ static int __net_init ip6_fb_tnl_dev_ini struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev); struct net *net = dev_net(dev); struct ip6_tnl_net *ip6n = net_generic(net, ip6_tnl_net_id); - int err = ip6_tnl_dev_init_gen(dev); - - if (err) - return err; t->parms.proto = IPPROTO_IPV6; dev_hold(dev); - ip6_tnl_link_config(t); - rcu_assign_pointer(ip6n->tnls_wc[0], t); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/vti6-use-vti6_dev_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.patch queue-3.17/gre6-move-the-setting-of-dev-iflink-into-the-ndo_init-functions.patch queue-3.17/sit-use-ipip6_tunnel_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.patch queue-3.17/ip6_tunnel-use-ip6_tnl_dev_init-as-the-ndo_init-function.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